<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If you're using sendmail then your machine
should have two or more sendmail processes </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">running: </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">o one
listening on port 25, which receives mail and puts it on the "in"
queue</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> for
processing by MailScanner;</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">o one
or two queue runners to take mail from MailScanner's output queue and </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> send
it on to the intended recipients if
it's malware-free and not spam, or to </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> any
recipients designated by the MailScanner config file for spam or infected</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> mail;</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">o others
that actually do the delivery.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There also should be some MailScanner
processes (here they're </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> /usr/bin/perl
-I/opt/MailScanner/lib /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">that do the scanning. They're the middlemen
between the port-25 listener sendmail </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">instance and the queue-runner sendmail
instances.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">MailScanner itself does not listen on
port 25.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">How, exactly, are you starting your
MailScanner and sendmail instances? </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I use </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> /opt/MailScanner/bin/rc.MailScanner
start</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">to do the job. </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mike Andrews<br>
Information Security<br>
Technical Services Division<br>
Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation <br>
mandrews@odot.org</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Hello.... My problem is simple (but the solution may
not be). When I<br>
start MailScanner, it fails to begin listening on port 25. This renders<br>
it useless. I have version 4.31.6 running on Debian Linux. It
seemed to<br>
install with no problems using the handy install.sh utility. All
the<br>
associated files and directories seem to be in their proper places. I<br>
have studied the mailscanner.conf file and selected the options I would<br>
like to start with, however since it is not accepting inbound email, there<br>
is no way to test if these options are working.<br>
Any advice would be much appreciated. My sendmail is
running just<br>
fine, so I turned it back on after turning killing the MailScanner<br>
processes (five as per the default setting for child processes). Sendmail<br>
is listening normally on port 25. I test this by using both netstat
and<br>
telnet. The machine is in a testing environment, and the situation
is by<br>
no means urgent, but I would like to get the thing running so I can put<br>
the whole system online, with spamassassin and clamav.<br>
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