breakage between 4.68.5 and 4.68.8

Thu Apr 3 18:46:21 UTC 2008

What is the path to the MailScanner.conf file in the patch I gave you? 
Obviously it should point to the one you have.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Julian,
>
> Put in your fix, still no go.  It still whines like before:
>
> (56)> ./MailScanner --lintlite
> IPBlock Currently not supported for your MTA  at 
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm line 790
>
> Is this an installation/path related issue?  Each release of
> MailScanner is installed into /opt using your install.sh script,
> so installations look like:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         20 Apr  3 13:07 MailScanner -> 
> MailScanner-4.67.6-1
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         512 Mar  7 10:36 
> MailScanner-4.67.6-1
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         512 Mar 18 08:26 
> MailScanner-4.68.5-1
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         512 Apr  1 11:28 
> MailScanner-4.68.8-1
>
> Yes, I do have an /etc/MailScanner directory:
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Jul 24  2006 images
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other       4879 Mar 17 09:21 IPBlock.conf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other       5943 Mar 12 10:00 IPBlock.conf.last
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other       1024 Sep 10  2007 reports
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Apr  1 09:32 rules
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        512 Sep 20  2007 rulesdujour
>
> But the MailScanner.conf file that I always use is:
>
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf  (follows the symlink)
>
> Like I said, things worked with the 4.68.5 beta but broke with 
> 4.68.8.  I'm running 4.67.6 right now.
>
> BTW, when I was running 4.68.5 instead 4.67.6, my system load seemed
> to be a lot lower on the box.  Did you make some magic general
> performance improvement?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:22:29 +0100
>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner Beta-testers 
>> <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner Beta-testers <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: breakage between 4.68.5 and 4.68.8
>>
>> This is fixed for the next release.
>>
>> A suitable patch for your CustomConfig.pm is this:
>>
>> ---- SNIP ----
>> --- CustomConfig.pm    2008-03-24 13:07:46.000000000 +0000
>> +++ /tmp/CustomConfig.pm    2008-04-02 19:24:49.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -765,6 +765,7 @@
>>
>> my $ConfFile = $ARGV[0];
>> $ConfFile = $ARGV[1] if $ConfFile =~ /^-+/i;
>> +$ConfFile = '/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf' unless $ConfFile && 
>> -f $ConfFile;
>>
>> my ($AccessDB, $Refusal, $my_mta); # Generalized here for Multiple 
>> MTA support
>> $my_mta = lc(MailScanner::Config::QuickPeek($ConfFile, 'mta')) if 
>> $ConfFile &&
>> ---- SNIP ----
>>
>> (The location is customised for the tar release so it gets the 
>> correct path under /opt and doesn't use /etc)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jules.
>>
>>
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>> Put the location of the MailScanner.conf on the command-line and it 
>>> should be happier.
>>> At that point it doesn't know where the conf file is.
>>> I'll try to sort this for the next release.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Julian Field wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using IPBlock anywhere in your MailScanner.conf file?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, relevent parts of MailScanner.conf:
>>>>
>>>> MTA = sendmail
>>>> Sendmail = /usr/lib/sendmail
>>>> Sendmail2 = /usr/lib/sendmail
>>>> Always Looked Up Last = &IPBlock
>>>>
>>>> Obviously sendmail is there:
>>>>
>>>> (38)> ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail
>>>> -r-xr-sr-x   1 root     smmsp    1227724 Nov 19 07:23 
>>>> /usr/lib/sendmail
>>>>
>>>>> If so, the result is quite correct, it's only implemented for 
>>>>> postfix and sendmail.
>>>>> If you're not, please do a "MailScanner --lintlite" and tell me 
>>>>> everything it outputs (if anything).
>>>>
>>>> (2)> ./MailScanner --lintlite
>>>> IPBlock Currently not supported for your MTA  at 
>>>> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm line 789
>>>>
>>>>> What MTA are you using?
>>>>
>>>> My setup: Solaris 10, sendmail, current SA release, etc.  We had 
>>>> issues
>>>> with IPBlock in the early beta releases of 4.68, got things fixed by
>>>> 4.68.5, I didn't get a chance to test the last beta on 3/31, and here
>>>> we are.  "diff" says there are no diffs between the 4.68.5 and 4.68.8
>>>> versions of CustomConfig.pm, other than the RCS version number 
>>>> (3638 vs
>>>> 3657).
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Earickson
>>>> Colby College
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
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