spam scanning stopped working

[mikea]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:04:04PM +0100, Shane Kelly wrote:

> On Monday 25 August 2003 2:33 pm, Kurt Yoder wrote:

> > So my response to this sobig garbage has been to install mimedefang
> > (http://mimedefang.org) and block all mail containing "dangerous"
> > file name extensions such as .pif, .scr, etc. This way they are
> > rejected before they even get into the mail system. So far, so good.
>
>         Is it not possible to use MailScanners filename rules to block the dangerous
> stuff?

> > The problem is that ever since I installed mimedefang, mailscanner's
> > virus scanning has stopped working. I'm almost positive this is the
> > connection, because I see some tagged spams right before I installed
> > mimedefang two days ago, and no tagged spams since. I even sent
> > myself some test messages that used to trigger spam tags, but now
> > don't.
> >
> > Is there a debug mode in mailscanner I can use to track down what is
> > going on? I am using MailScanner-4.22-5.

There is indeed a debug mode in MailScanner; see your
/opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf for details, in the
"Advanced Settings" area, around line 1000:

: #
: # Advanced Settings
: # -----------------
: #
: # Don't bother changing anything below this unless you really know
: # what you are doing, or else if MailScanner has complained about
: # your "Minimum Code Status" setting.
: #
:
: # Set Debug to "yes" to stop it running as a daemon and just process
: # one batch of messages and then exit.
: Debug = no
: #Debug = yes

But the MailScanner filename rules handle this *very* nicely for me
at work and at home. Why did you decide to use mimedefang?

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Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964