From: Jussi Silvennoinen (jussi_postfixsilvennoinen.net)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 08:23:21 CST

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> im getting nowhere trying to implement spamassassin and postfix, i've done
> exactly whats listed at this url:
> http://blog.subverted.net/index.php?p=459
> (along with many other attempts accoring to many other urls)
>
> all i end up with is a circular mail problem... mail comes into postfix,
> the content filter sends it to sendmail, which then smtp's it back into postfix
> again, which then sends it straight back out to the content filter (sendmail)...
> rinse and repeat... to me this is the correct behaviour, and sendmail is
> doing the correct thing... The cycle is only broken once the limit on the
> number of hops is exceeded, then an error message gets sent back, and since
> the email came from a local account to begin with, the problem re-itterates
> itself (until i can break the cycle by killing postfix)..
>
> The only change i've made to postfix (as it came with fedora core 2) has
> been to add in my own domains and turn on maildir support... originally i
> was running sendmail, but because i wanted maildir, i decided to make the
> switch...

Perhaps you didn't do the switch from Sendmail to Postfix as you're
supposed to do with Redhat (alternatives). Fix the mess, mainly symlink
/usr/sbin/sendmail to postfix's sendmail-binary. On the other hand, why do
you still have Sendmail installed?

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  Jussi

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