Comments on: MailScanner, Postfix, ClamAV and SpamAssassin Setup Howto for RHEL/CentOS 5

By: consultant

consultant — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:13:46 +0000

Hi Scrouch,

Please check the log file at /var/log/maillog

By: Scrouch

Scrouch — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:02:02 +0000

I can’t get postfix service to start again. Any idea what I may have done wrong

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:28:33 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for a great set of instructions…. everything worked exactly untill I had to install the MailScanner. I had to use the ./install.sh after downloading the program from their website and then had a few false starts where I needed to install other things and then re-run ./install.sh…. I had to install clamav,clamd and clamdb from the Zag place… I got everything working from scratch on a fresh machine in around 12 hours… started installing on Centos 5 and ended up finishing on 5.03 when I could not get MailScanner to install, I updated Centos first….
Thanks again

By: Albert van Harten

Albert van Harten — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:43:48 +0000

“SpamAssassin is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5 and it’s ready to go out of the box.”

Well, not in my case.
When looking in /var/log/maillog, I see this line:

Jul 22 15:21:17 nestorix spamd[2723]: dns: sendto() failed: Invalid argument at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 395.

Anyone knows how to get rid of this?

Albert

By: Eugened

Eugened — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:26:03 +0000

I followed your instructions and now I see the following error in my maillog
You want to use SpamAssassin but have not installed it.

I fololowed your instructions and setup maiScanner, I thought it would use the spamassassion, yet i have not installed it

Do I need to install it ?

By: Yomi Fajuke

Yomi Fajuke — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:52:13 +0000

Hi, am trying to install the mail server following your guide step by step, the problem I have now is mails getting stuck in /var/spool/postfix/hold. I have check the mail log file I find the following errors
mailscanner[28068]: could not read directory Outgoing. Error in configuration file line 159, directory Outgoing Queue Dir=/var/spool/postfix/incoming for outqueuedir does not exist (or is not readable) I will apricate any help. Thanks

By: adi

adi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:30:31 +0000

Resolved the problem with LDAP server.

I have now the same problem with the SATYAM ROHIT.

Jun 1 12:27:16 mail MailScanner[11981]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
Jun 1 12:27:18 mail MailScanner[11978]: Could not create processing-messages database “/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db”
Jun 1 12:27:18 mail MailScanner[11978]: Using locktype = flock
Jun 1 12:27:19 mail MailScanner[11989]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.76.25 starting…
Jun 1 12:27:20 mail MailScanner[11989]: Read 853 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Jun 1 12:27:20 mail MailScanner[11989]: Read 6764 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
Jun 1 12:27:20 mail MailScanner[11989]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Jun 1 12:27:20 mail MailScanner[11989]: Could not create SpamAssassin cache database /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
Jun 1 12:27:20 mail MailScanner[11989]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
Jun 1 12:27:24 mail MailScanner[11997]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.76.25 starting…
Jun 1 12:27:24 mail MailScanner[11997]: Read 853 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Jun 1 12:27:25 mail MailScanner[11981]: Could not create processing-messages database “/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db”
Jun 1 12:27:25 mail MailScanner[11981]: Using locktype = flock
Jun 1 12:27:25 mail MailScanner[11997]: Read 6764 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
Jun 1 12:27:26 mail MailScanner[11997]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Jun 1 12:27:26 mail MailScanner[11997]: Could not create SpamAssassin cache database /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
Jun 1 12:27:26 mail MailScanner[11997]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
Jun 1 12:27:27 mail MailScanner[11989]: Could not create processing-messages database “/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db”
Jun 1 12:27:27 mail MailScanner[11989]: Using locktype = flock

By: SATYAM ROHIT

SATYAM ROHIT — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:07:52 +0000

hey frenz…
i have configured my mail server from d given steps…bt all mah mails are stucked into /var/spool/postfix/hold
when going thru my /var/log/maillog
it gives d following info

Jun 1 12:22:18 localhost MailScanner[3878]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.76.25 starting…
Jun 1 12:22:18 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Read 853 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Jun 1 12:22:18 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Read 10626 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
Jun 1 12:22:18 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Jun 1 12:22:18 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Could not create SpamAssassin cache database /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
Jun 1 12:22:18 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
Jun 1 12:22:19 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Could not create processing-messages database “/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db”
Jun 1 12:22:19 localhost MailScanner[3878]: Using locktype = flock

By: adi

adi — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:06:46 +0000

My postfix doesn’t start on start up

By: adi

adi — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:04:54 +0000

What does it mean the log

May 16 13:40:59 mail MailScanner[2567]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
May 16 13:41:04 mail MailScanner[2745]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
May 16 13:41:04 mail postfix/pickup[2277]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can’t contact LDAP server
May 16 13:41:04 mail postfix/pickup[2277]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)…
May 16 13:41:04 mail postfix/qmgr[2278]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can’t contact LDAP server
May 16 13:41:04 mail postfix/qmgr[2278]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)…
May 16 13:41:09 mail MailScanner[2830]: Enabling SpamAssassin auto-whitelist functionality…
May 16 13:41:10 mail postfix/proxymap[3601]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can’t contact LDAP server
May 16 13:41:10 mail postfix/proxymap[3601]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)…
May 16 13:41:36 mail postfix/pickup[2277]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can’t contact LDAP server
May 16 13:41:36 mail postfix/pickup[2277]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 64 seconds)…
May 16 13:41:36 mail postfix/qmgr[2278]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1/: Can’t contact LDAP server
May 16 13:41:36 mail postfix/qmgr[2278]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 64 seconds)…