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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there --</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We are running MailScanner 4.83.4-1 on a CentOS 5.6 64-bit distribution. The status of MailScanner was checked hourly via the </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">check_mailscanner script, and normally the e-mailed result was 'Starting MailScanner…' which indicated the process was running</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">without issue. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The server in question sits outside the company firewall, and was configured to deliver e-mail messages directly to their intended </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">recipients. Our company recently changed its policy concerning external e-mail servers to require them to send their e-mails to</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">their destinations via an e-mail gateway server. Consequently, the server was reconfigured to relay its messages to the gateway,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and is no longer delivering messages directly to their recipients. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When the change was made, I noticed the check_mailscanner script was sending a new message which read as follows: </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">'Starting MailScanner…failed'</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have tried starting and restarting the MailScanner software via the /etc/init.d/MailScanner script. The output of the script</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">seems to indicate that MailScanner starts, but a subsequent check for the application via the ps -ef |grep MailScanner command</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">shows the command is not running.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I checked the /var/log/maillog file for any reference to this when I did the restart of MailScanner, and the excerpt shown below</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">coincides with the time that I ran the script:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17895]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by ahk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17895]: /etc/aliases: 104 aliases, longest 29 bytes, 1526 bytes total</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17903]: starting daemon (8.13.8): SMTP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17903]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17903]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sm-msp-queue[17907]: starting daemon (8.13.8): queueing@00:15:00</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:53 hadron sendmail[17911]: starting daemon (8.13.8): queueing@00:15:00</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:58 hadron sendmail[17903]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jun 16 11:42:58 hadron sendmail[17903]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP socket</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am not sure if this is the source of the problem, please excuse my ignorance if it is, or if there is something else at fault here.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can someone lend a hand on this?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks. </FONT>
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