Just installed MailScanner

[Julian Field]

At 10:32 04/07/2002, you wrote:
>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?

Have you fixed the 2 mqueue directories on your server so they are on the
same filesystem? I can't remember what I did to Ray's system to solve this
one. Suggest you ask Ray...
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ