On 9/22/2009 2:08 PM, Geoff Sweet wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I'm transitioning a lot of my mail servers from Qmail to Postfix and
thus far it has gone very well. I got Postfix 2.3 (from the CentOS 5.3)
up and running in a flash and then even got it all running with MySQL
virtual users! My hats off to the Postfix devs.
However now I want to incorporate a few things like ClamAV, and
Spamassassin and it appears that Amavisd-new is the preferred way to do
it. I installed it out of the RPMForge repositories and Spamassassin,
ClamAV, and amavisd-new all seem to be running correctly. If I telnet
to port 10024 on localhost I can successfully see the Amavisd-new
prompts and commands.
Welcome to postfix!
Yes, amavisd-new is a popular and reliable way to integrate
SpamAssassin and clamav with postfix.
Be aware that postfix 2.3 is getting rather long in the tooth.
The current patchlevel for the 2.3 series is 2.3.19. While
postfix 2.3.19 is quite reliable, it's lacking tons of useful
features introduced in newer versions.
I think it's better to build a new server with the current
stable version rather than something already outdated; the
current postfix stable version is 2.6.5.
When I startup Postfix and attempt to send mail through it, I get this
error in the maillog:
Sep 18 17:02:03 mail postfix/qmgr[16473]: warning: connect to transport
scan: Connection refused
Looks like a leftover from a previous configuration when you
were using content_filter = scan:...
Fix this by requeueing all mail with
postsuper -r ALL
Sep 18 17:02:03 mail postfix/cleanup[16474]: fatal: unsupported
dictionary type: mysql
Looks as if postfix doesn't have mysql support compiled in.
type "postconf -m" to see what map types your version of
postfix supports.
Sep 18 17:02:40 mail postfix/smtpd[16475]: warning: dict_nis_init: NIS
domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled
I assume you don't use NIS. You can get rid of this harmless
warning by setting in main.cf:
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
Below are my main.cf and master.cf. As I am relatively new to this
we strongly prefer "postconf -n" output as explained in the
list welcome message.
If you have more questions, see:
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail
-- Noel Jones
