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

[Julian Field]

At 22:12 07/08/2002, you wrote:
>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.

Never come across anyone who wanted to do that before, sorry.

As a general rule, if you put softlink the directories MailScanner uses,
then put the *real* path in the mailscanner.conf file, not any path that
follows soft-links. This occurs primarily with the 2 queue directories.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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