[CentOS] Not receiving root mail

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 23 10:00:03 UTC 2011


On 23 August 2011 10:46, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <CAJfU-f7nCz+iamXzg5rQ0VZAELctBCNcNFySYykAapXw5CeG6g at mail.gmail.com>,
> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 22 August 2011 20:50, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
>> > One of the first things I do after the installation of a system is a yum
>> > install postfix followed by a yum remove sendmail. No need to deal with
>> > alternatives if you don't intend to deal with sendmail anyway.
>> >
>> I removed sendmail - but it also removed clamav-milter.  When I tried
>> to re-install clamav-milter it would have pulled sendmail back in so I
>> aborted.  Advice?
>
> milters are specific to sendmail. clamav-milter is a linkage between
> ClamAV and sendmail, so you don't need it with postfix. If you want to
> use ClamAV, you will need to find out how to link it with postfix, but
> it won't be by using clamav-milter.
>
OK, that's fine, then.  In the past I ran scans via cron - which I've
set up again.  However, I'm back with the original problem of not
receiving root mail - and not receiving any local messages that should
be routed by the /etc/postfix/transport.db

Anne



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