Directadmin/exim/mailscanner conflict

[flamewalker]

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

 

[flamewalker]

I think I answered my own question...

 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*

 

[nobaloney]

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

 

[flamewalker]

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?