MailScanner & sendmail

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Fri Apr 17 11:27:43 UTC 2009


At 03:15 PM 4/15/2009, Bob Willcox wrote:
>I asked this question in freebsd-ports (in a different way as I thought
>maybe I could clarify the situation some by rewording it) the other day
>and didn't receive any reply so I thought I try here this time.
>
>I have a 7.2-prelease system that I am trying to get sendmail and
>MailScanner running on and for some reason sendmail isn't listening on
>*.smtp, though it is listening on localhost.smtp.
>
>If I remove MailScanner from the mix and run sendmail in the
>conventional way (with sendmail_enable="YES" specified in /etc/rc.conf)
>then things work as expected (except no MailScanner, of course).
>
>I currently have a running 6.4-stable system that this new 7.2 system
>is scheduled to replace that is using the same MailScanner and sendmail
>configuration files and it is working ok (and has been for a long time).
>
>I suspect that I'm simply missing some configuration option here that
>I've overlooked or that may have changed between 6.4 and 7.2, but don't
>really know where to look.
>
>Any help or tips on things to do/check would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob
>
>--
>Bob Willcox              The trouble with doing something right the first
>bob at immure.com           time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
>Austin, TX                     -- unknown

Bob,


I have sendmail with mailscanner running on 7.1 release with no 
problems.  Do you have:
mta_type="sendmail"
mailscanner_enable="YES"
in your /etc/rc.conf?

I also have:
spamd_enable="YES"
in my /etc/rc.conf

         -Derek

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