{Spam?} Re: Ubuntu 20.04 and MailScanner+sendmail installation instructions?

Peter H. Lemieux mailscanner at replies.cyways.com
Fri May 28 14:02:12 UTC 2021


In my case it's because I have a couple decades invested in learning how 
to run sendmail.  It would take considerable effort to teach myself how 
to do the same things with Postfix without much appreciable benefit.

Peter


On 5/28/21 9:18 AM, Thom van der Boon wrote:
> Hi remco,
> 
> Why do you use sendmail? and not f.e. Postfix?
> 
> Met vriendelijke groet, Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Best regards,
> 
> 
> Thom van der Boon
> 
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> *Van: *"Remco Barendse" <mailscanner at barendse.to>
> *Aan: *"MailScanner Discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> *Verzonden: *Vrijdag 28 mei 2021 14:01:48
> *Onderwerp: *Ubuntu 20.04 and MailScanner+sendmail installation 
> instructions?
> 
> I am migrating all servers from CentOS -> Ubuntu since RedHat pulled the
> rug under CentOS. MailScanner is the last task on the list, but google
> revealed that Ubuntu + sendmail/mailscanner is not a very popular
> option?  Are there installation instructions anywhere ?  I am finding bits
> and pieces online but nothing complete.
> 
> Google didn't reveal much about  sendmail on Ubuntu either.
> 
> I installed Ubuntu 20.04, from the .deb file and installed MailScanner
> without major errors (CPAN doesn't like it by the way if the
> box is not connected directly to the internet but via a proxy.
> 
> I created second incoming directory :
> mkdir /var/spool/mqueue.in ; chown smmta:smmsp /var/spool/mqueue.in ;
> chmod 2750 /var/spool/mqueue.in
> 
> I set Incoming "Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in" in MailScanner.conf
> 
> MailScanner website mentions modification of startup script (which I
> think is stale?), a google search revealed this is what needs to be
> changed :
> sed -i 's/DAEMON_PARMS=""/DAEMON_PARMS="-bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn
> -ODeliveryMode=queueonly -OQueueDirectory=\/var\/spool\/mqueue.in"/g'
> /etc/mail/sendmail.conf
> 
> I ran sendmailconfig, will modify sendmail.mc with all FEATUREs from
> CentOS sendmail.mc.
> 
> Anything else I overlooked?
> 
> The server will not deliver mail locally but relay everything to
> Exchange, can I enable define(`confSAFE_FILE_ENV',             `')dnl or 
> will that
> break MailScanner?
> 
> Is DCC still used ? (https://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/)
> 
> Thanks for any hints / tips!
> Remco
> 
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