Minor Installation Oddity: /var/spool/MailScanner mustn't be soft-linked

[Richard Bollinger]

Apparently the /var/spool/MailScanner directory has to be *exactly* there.  I had soft-linked it to
another drive and things fell apart if a virus was found.  Same symptom even if the entire
/var/spool directory was soft-linked elsewhere.

The virus wasn't properly quarantined (in fact the email was sent on unchanged) and the
notifications were all broken.

I put it back at /var/spool/MailScanner and everything worked fine.

/var/spool/mqueue.in and /var/spool/mqueue are both soft linked to another drive.  That seems to be
OK.

We're running these versions:
Slackware 8.0 base distribution
Linux 2.4.18 kernel
uvscan 4.14.0
sendmail 8.11.6
perl 5.6.1
MailScanner-3.22.10
io-stringy-1.220.tar.gz
mime-base64-2.12.tar.gz
mailtools-1.47.tar.gz
file-spec-0.82.tar.gz
mime-tools-5.411a.tar.gz
file-temp-0.12.tar.gz
convert-tnef-0.17.tar.gz

Ideas?

Thanks, Rich Bollinger, Elliott Company