On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:51 +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote: > On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 01:11, William Yardley wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:56:58PM +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote: > > > Recently, I've had the problem that any mail addressed to that system > > > spawns a smtpd process, which locks. > > > > > > Telnetting into smtp produced the expected responses, right up to the > > > point where you send the rcpt to: line, at which point everything > > > freezes. > > > > > > There's nothing visible in any log file to point to any error. > > > > There are no errors in /var/log/maillog? > > > > > I suspect a postfix problem, but don't have the knowledge to know where > > > to look next. > > > > What's the output of postconf -n? > > What's in your master.cf file? > > > > What's the output of "ps -ef | grep postfix" > > > > w > > Sorry about the delay repying. Problem is solved. Turned out to be a > permissions problem on the mail spool directory. > > Now all I have to do is work out how to integrate postfix and spamassassin and > clamAV on *this* system. Yes, I know there are loads of howto's around, but > they expect you to be setting up a system from scratch. This server is a > running server, and I cannot take it out of service too long! > > I have Spamassassin working fine from a system-wide procmail script which > looks like: > > /usr/bin/spamc | sendmail (parameters) > > Any ideas anyone? ---- use MailScanner - the perfect wrapper for all of this. It will drive ClamAV and spamassassin and make it one manageable setup. http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ easy rpm install...(even though you download a tarball and install via shell). Craig
