MailScanner v5.0.3-7 upgrade install

[Jerry Benton]

Does this not setup the sendmail process correctly?

https://www.mailscanner.info/sendmail/



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Jerry Benton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Baudler <wbaudler at gb.nrao.edu>
Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Date: August 24, 2016 at 11:34:56 AM
To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject:  Re: MailScanner v5.0.3-7 upgrade install

> > Yes, the code to start and stop MTA?s have been removed in v5.
> > MailScanner changes do not equate to MTA changes so it makes no sense
> > to start/stop/restart the MTA. They are different services. It makes
> > about as much sense as it would for MailScanner to restart your virus
> > scanner services.
> >
> > Each MTA comes with it own service management scripts. i.e..
> >
> > service sendmail restart
>
> It makes sense to separate them, but MailScanner with sendmail requires
> separate sendmail processes for the incoming and outgoing queues. The
> standard OS service scripts know nothing about this (at least on RHEL), so
> a customized startup script is needed for MailScanner.
>
> > service postfix restart
> > service exim restart
> >
>
> Can't speak to the situation with these MTAs
>
> Wolfgang
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