Thank you good members, I have to be sincere, I did not know that Mailscanner was not supported by Postfix. I was trying it because there is a mail server (supporting one of my emails) running on postfix which uses Mailscanner and I thought I could emulate. Otherwise am sorry for spamming your boxes with wrong forum staff, but it takes a mistake to learn. I have learnt and hope to change. Thank you for this. I am going to try and see whether I can install amavisd-new as advised by Brian Evans in the earlier response... Thank you so much. -- .................................................................. Seat of Wisdom ..........................Pray for us Cause of our Joy...........................Pray for us ................................................................... Mayengo Tom Kizito +256-752-602550 +256-782-062708
-----Original Message----- From: Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> Reply-to: s...@hardwarefreak.com To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Postfix cannot send mails when Mailscanner is added Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:14:15 -0500 On 4/3/2012 8:51 AM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > On 4/3/2012 9:32 AM, Kizito Thomas wrote: >> I am trying out Mailscanner for the first time in my life [...] > I highly recommend to use amavisd-new instead of Mailscanner. [...] > The latter uses an unsupported direct queue manipulation which is not > guaranteed to work correctly in Postfix. Apparently Kizito is incapable of reading the current Postfix documentation but very capable of reading outdated articles purporting the (non existent) benefits of Mailscanner. From: http://www.postfix.org/addon.html mailscanner system, works with Postfix and other MTAs. WARNING: This software uses unsupported methods to manipulate Postfix queue files directly. This will result in corruption or loss of mail. The mailscanner authors have so far refused to discuss a proper access API or protocol. This Mailscaner warning has been on the Postfix site for years. AFAIK these are Wietse's words. Kizito, Wietse is the author of Postfix. Still want to use Mailscanner? If so you are on your own. We will not assist you with problems related to it.
