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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=561120220-17062004>Thankyou (and Mr. Leduc as well) for steering me in the
right direction. I had been misinterpreting the directions I read in the
mailscanner pdf manual on page eight where it says to stop sendmail, then start
mailscaner (after everything has been set up). This led me to believe that
mailscanner would call upon sendmail to do its thing at its own
discretion. Now I realize that you need to start sendmail, but only after
mailscanner is started first, which is why you need to make sure sendmail does
not start upon rebooting. At least that's the sense I have now.
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class=561120220-17062004> Anyway, it seems to be working and
my email headers contain appropriate messages indicating that mailscanner is
indeed doing its job, plus the mail.log entries now look normal (I was getting
lots of "connection refused" errors, suggesting there was no message
transport running), and mail does not sit in a queue waiting for something to
happen (another symptom of my earlier misconfiguration).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=561120220-17062004>I have
tweaked the sendmail.cf to include DAEMON_PARMS="-bd
-OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=561120220-17062004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=561120220-17062004>but I
have no idea what this does or even if it has any effect. But without this
line there does not seem any specific mention of the mqueue.in directory
otherwise so I guess it must be important. I picked this configuration
advice up in a newsgroup post and it sounded sensible.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=561120220-17062004>Again,
thank you for your assistance. I feel confident I can finish the setup and
put the new system into operation. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=561120220-17062004>--Peter T.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> MailScanner mailing list
[mailto:MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Mike
Andrews<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:51 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: MailScanner not listening
for messages<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>If you're
using sendmail then your machine should have two or more sendmail processes
</FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>running: </FONT><BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>o one listening on port 25,
which receives mail and puts it on the "in" queue</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2> for processing by
MailScanner;</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>o
one or two queue runners to take mail from MailScanner's output queue
and </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2> send
it on to the intended recipients if it's
malware-free and not spam, or to </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2> any recipients designated by the
MailScanner config file for spam or infected</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2> mail;</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>o others that actually do the
delivery.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>There also should be
some MailScanner processes (here they're </FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2> /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/MailScanner/lib
/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>that
do the scanning. They're the middlemen between the port-25 listener sendmail
</FONT><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>instance and the queue-runner sendmail
instances.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>MailScanner itself does
not listen on port 25.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>How,
exactly, are you starting your MailScanner and sendmail instances?
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I use </FONT><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>
/opt/MailScanner/bin/rc.MailScanner start</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>to do the job. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Mike
Andrews<BR>Information Security<BR>Technical Services Division<BR>Oklahoma
Dept. of Transportation <BR>mandrews@odot.org</FONT> <BR><BR><BR>
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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
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