JDP wrote:

Hello Sandy,

Somehow, things are going terribly wrong. My test emails are not showing up in the queue and they are not getting delivered either. I can see them going into the system, var/log/mail.info, but i don't know what is happening to them.

If the log doesn't say what is happening with it, chances are that indeed nothing happens. (^-^) But if you have a file /var/log/mail.info, you might want to look at /var/log/mail.warn as well. What do you see when you use the command "mailq"?

Aug 6 13:45:09 postmaster postfix/smtpd[31844]: connect from unknown[192.168.xx.xxx] Aug 6 13:45:09 postmaster postfix/smtpd[31844]: 8E1D718548C: client=unknown[192.168.xx.xxx] Aug 6 13:45:23 postmaster postfix/cleanup[31847]: 8E1D718548C: hold: header Received: from 1243876 (unknown [192.168.20.160])??by postmaster.domain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E1D718548C??for <user@domain.com>; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:45:09 -0700 (PDT) from unknown[192.168.20.160]; from=user@domian.com> to=<user@domain.com> proto=SMTP helo=<1243876>

Mail is received and put into the hold queue to be scanned by mailscanner. So far so good.

Aug 6 13:45:23 postmaster postfix/cleanup[31847]: 8E1D718548C: message-id=<20060806204509.8E1D718548C@postmaster.domain.com> Aug 6 13:45:23 postmaster postfix/smtpd[31844]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.xx.xxx] Aug 6 13:45:24 postmaster MailScanner[30318]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 683 bytes Aug 6 13:45:24 postmaster MailScanner[30318]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting Aug 6 13:46:55 postmaster update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed Aug 6 13:46:55 postmaster update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for clamav Aug 6 13:46:56 postmaster update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed Aug 6 13:46:56 postmaster update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for generic

Mailscanner is started, detected the mail and scanned the mail. Now I would expect Postfix to process the mail again. That does not seem to happen. It might be that your version of mailscanner is incompatible with Postfix. Please check on the mailscanner site.

Also, may I e-mail you directly and post my success back to the list? {I accidentally sent a reply to you, and the list, and it was rejected}

Ah, yes, I am restricting the email addresses I use in mailing lists and accept mails to these addresses only when they come from the list server. In case of private mails please use the address in the footer: news-reply2@... Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com