4.10-1: Cannot create + lock headers file ...

[Quentin Campbell]

Julian

Running MailScanner 4.10-1 on a RedHat 7.2 system with Sendmail. 

It is built from the Unix (non-RPM) tar ball in the same way we have
done for all the previos versions. 

Whenever I do a "/etc/init.d/MailScanner restart" I get a message of the
form:

"Cannot create + lock headers file
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/28837/gB5123456123.header, at
/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner/Message.pm line 237".

The process-ID/sendmail-ID changes each time and a "ps -ef | grep Mail"
shows a child MailScanner process ID different from the one given in the
error message.

Otherwise MailScanner seems to be running OK as far as initial testing
shows.

However I was a little bit surprised that the "Archive Mail" option
requires that the sub-directories of /var/spool/MailScanner/archive that
are specified in the ruleset must already be created rather than being
created the first time a message has to be stored under it. You create
the date sub-dircetory under that on the fly so why not the parent
dircetory?

Related to this option is that I note that "archived" messages are
stored in separate "df" and "qf" files, presumably because I have
"Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no" (the default). I would
want that behaviour if I was quarantining messages but I want the qf &
df file combined into one when I am "archiving".
 
Quentin
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