[sclug] debian mailscanner & exim

[Chris Aitken]

Have the situation sorted.

It is a cron.d job.

Only problem now is that the anti-virus support in stable mailscanner is so
outdated the parsers dont work!

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Dickson [mailto:wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk]
Sent: 29 May 2003 21:12
To: Chris Aitken
Subject: Re: [sclug] debian mailscanner & exim


Chris Aitken wrote:
> Sorry!
>
> Im running the latest Debian Stable (3.0?), and Exim 3.35.
>
> I have that same file in /etc/init.d/ but on further digging it would
appear
> that that file is not used (atleast according to Hants Lug Feb 2003
> archive), and that it is started every 15 minuts from a cron job
> (/etc/cron.d/exim). There is also the cron.daily exim file that cleans
logs
> etc.
>
> It was also said in the same lug post, that exim starts up upon receiving
> mail on port 25.
>
> All of this leaves me a little confused to say the least!

Might it be started by inetd?



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