Directadmin/exim/mailscanner conflict

flamewalker

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I have a curious problem that appears to be due to, I believe, Directadmin, restarting an exim process on its own.

I have MailScanner installed, which controls exim starting and stopping. However, even though I killed all exim processes, turned it off via chkconfig, and restarted MailScanner, something is starting a lone exim process.

I know this because we are getting random duplicate emails, one with the MailScanner header, and one without.

I have already checked the cron files, and I didn't see anything there starting exim separate from MS. Any other places to look?

TIA.
Jamey
 
I think I answered my own question...

Code:
 MailScanner comes with its own startup script, so you can safely get rid of the original one:

 #cd /etc/init.d/ cp exim exim.orig;chmod -x exim.orig rm exim

However, DirectAdmin will check for the exim file, so we create a symlink to fool it:

ln -s MailScanner exim
From http://www.michele.me/blog/archives/2006/01/16/installing-mailscanner-on-directadmin-with-exim/ may have been the missing part of the puzzle. I thought I had done that, however I must have reinstalled/updated exim some time after installing MS.

*crosses fingers*
 
What are the advantages of MailScanner compared to using the latest version of SpamBlocker (nobaloney.net)? Is it better at blocking spam, better at filtering spam?

Jeff
 
Mainly the reporting available with Mailwatch for MailScanner... so far they seem about even spam wise. I ended up undoing the MailScanner as I couldn't for the life of me figure out what or why a rogue exim process was scanning mail... Wasn't worth the hassle so I am now using the SpamBlocker from nobaloney.net and disabled MS.

Anyone aware of anything like MailWatch for Mailscanner, but for Exim/DA?
 
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