Mailscanner 5.0.6-4 ant port 25 not listening

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 04 September 2017 at 12:29:05, Marek Górny wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a MailScanner 5.0.6-4 with postfix 3.2.0 on OpenSUSE Leap 42.3
> Problem is when I disable postfix service and run mailscanner service then
> port 25 not listening (telnet localhost 25 Connection refused) I have to
> start postfix service (systemctl start postfix.service) to listen on port
> 25. What i've done wrong, I may have missed something?

Nothing is wrong.  This is completely normal.

MailScanner makes no attempt to speak (or listen to) SMTP; this was one of the 
design objectives.

The way the system works is:

1. MTA (Postfix in your case) listens for incoming mail on SMTP port 25
2. Any received mail is placed in a queue directory (not delivered)
3. MailScanner monitors the queue directory and processes anything it finds 
there
4. Acceptable mail is moved by MailScanner to a different queue directory
5. A second postfix instance delivers mail from the second queue directory to 
the intended recipients (internal or external, as the case may be)

I hope that helps,


Antony.

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