[CentOS] Not receiving root mail

Rob Kampen rkampen at kampensonline.com
Tue Aug 23 16:23:31 UTC 2011


Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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
>   
I use amavisd and clamav/clamd from rf repo - instructions on setup are 
on the CentOS wiki - has always just worked for me with 5.x
HTH
> Anne
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