On 04/24/2008 07:04 PM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
OK further explanation below: I have a local IMAP mail server that I use to store my email. Mail is retrieved from my ISP POP mail a/c by Fetchmail, passed to Postfix, who in turn commands/requests spamd and clamd to inspect the incoming mail.
If procmail is used for this, it may use spamd and perhaps clamd (but I do not think so). More than likely you are describing AMaViS. This runs as a daemon, mail comes to Postfix, is sent to AMaViS, spam and virus checked (but not with the daemonized versions of spamassassin), if it passes it is sent back to Postfix for delivery, which may deliver to the mailbox or to Procmail, which may do more things or simply deliver to the mailbox.
Once they have finished with the email it is handed back to Postfix to forward onto the IMAP server software, Courier-Imap I think.
That sounds like AMaViS.
The above is my understanding of how the mail server works.
with local power restrictions here, I shutdown the IMAP mail server daily. On restart the following day, and watching the boot messages fly past while the system boots up, I occasionally see that Spamd or Clamd have 'Failed' i.e. are not 'Done'.
Spamd is redundant and you could stop it from starting. Clamd is communicated with by freshclam and AMaViS, so it is needed.
What would the command be to manually start these daemons/apps/services or will Postfix start them when new email is passed to it from Fetchmail OR should I rather reboot the system and see that none of the processes/services/apps/daemons fail?
Regards Hylton
rcspamd restart or rcclamd restart, but AMaViS doesn't use spamd. Definitely no need to reboot to start those daemons. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org