Just installed MailScanner

Joe Quinn joe at QITC.CO.UK
Thu Jul 4 10:32:13 IST 2002


On Sat, 25 May 2002 13:17:19 +0100, Ray Healy <ray at MATRIX-DATANET.CO.UK>
wrote:

>Dear All
>
>After being advised by Julian - thank you very much Julian for the web site
>address - I installed F-prot (Small business 312) and Mailscanner 3.15-3
>onto my RAQ4 Cobalt which I believe is running RedHat 6.2 with Sendamil
8.10
>(as you can see I am quite new to this)
>
>Everything installed perfectly and the F-prot obtained its virus
>definitions corrcetly and installed them. I had no errors on the install
>whatsoever.
>
>I carried out the modifications as suggested in the artical at
>http://www.uk2raq.com/raqfaq/raqfaqshow.php?faq=96 which again wnet
>smoothly.
>
>The problem is that I can send and receive e-mail through my RAQ server but
>Mailscanner does not seem to be scanning the messages or attachments. I
>have been using the EICAR test virus and sending it to the server from my
>other free ISP account and from my server using Outlook Express. I do not
>get any of the additional entries in the e-mail header (X-Mailscanner.....)
>so I can only assume that the the messages are bypassing the MailScanner
>part of the operation totally.
>
>I cannot see where I have gone wrong considering I had no errors on
install.
>Everything appears to be running OK and I have tested the MailScanner
>using /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/check_mailscanner and I get back the
>correct respons.
>
>Can anyone through any light on this to where I may have gone wrong as I
>have gone through every item in this mailing list and the FAQ to no avail.
>
>Thanks everyone
>
>Ray Healy

Hi,

I have the same problem, I just installed on a RaQ3 and all appears to be
working as it should except that there are no headers in the mail?

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Joe



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