I have tail -f'd the mail antivirus log, and it really seems that emails are not sent to the SMTP server. I have lost 2 days on this and I am at my wits' end.
where should I look into the core to check where the emails are sent???
I was unable to make the SMTP Transport work, but after some playing with postfix, I was able to configure it correctly to use relays. I switched to sendmail transport and now it works as it should.
I cannot say I know more about eZpublish, but at least the emails work now ... and that's something.