Testing MailScanner

[Vernon Webb]

> Er, feed some spam through it and see what it does with it?

Sorry I messed up on the last message. Wrong server, I'm a doo doo head
sometimes.

When I start MailScanner I get no errors, but when I restart it says:


Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
 MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
 incoming sendmail: head: /var/run/sendmail.in.pid: No such file or directory
[  OK  ]
 outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]

Starting MailScanner daemons:
 incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
 outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
 MailScanner:       [  OK  ]

And yet all SPAM is getting through.

> > Secondly how do I test if f-port and Sophos (I have them both installed)
> > are working?
>
> Feed it an Eicar test file (if you don't have any real viruses handy) and
> again, see what it says.
>
> http://www.eicar.com
>
> Antony.
>
> --
>
> There are two possible outcomes.
>
> If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement.
> If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
>
> - Enrico Fermi
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