Mailscanner not scanning e-mails

[SW]

Julian,

Yeap, you were right. It seemed that in mailscanner.conf, virus scanners =
I was missing the 's' at the end of scanners. I fixed that and now in my
logs I see the following:

Dec 14 13:45:22 ns1 MailScanner[697]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Dec 14 13:45:23 ns1 sendmail[730]: starting daemon (8.9.3):
SMTP+queueing at 01:00:00
Dec 14 13:45:32 ns1 MailScanner[810]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Dec 14 13:45:33 ns1 MailScanner[697]: Using locktype = flock
Dec 14 13:45:33 ns1 MailScanner[697]: New Batch: Found 6 messages waiting
Dec 14 13:45:33 ns1 MailScanner[697]: New Batch: Scanning 4 messages, 4618
bytes
Dec 14 13:45:33 ns1 MailScanner[697]: Spam Checks: Starting
Dec 14 13:45:38 ns1 MailScanner[810]: Using locktype = flock
Dec 14 13:45:42 ns1 MailScanner[819]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Dec 14 13:45:43 ns1 MailScanner[697]: RBL Check ORDB-RBL timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
Dec 14 13:45:49 ns1 MailScanner[819]: Using locktype = flock
Dec 14 13:45:53 ns1 MailScanner[838]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Dec 14 13:45:53 ns1 MailScanner[697]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Dec 14 13:45:55 ns1 MailScanner[697]: Uninfected: Delivered 4 messages
Dec 14 13:46:00 ns1 MailScanner[838]: Using locktype = flock
Dec 14 13:46:02 ns1 MailScanner[870]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.25-14 starting...
Dec 14 13:46:08 ns1 MailScanner[870]: Using locktype = flock

But still no header info in the e-mails. I think Mailscanner is looking
somewhere where there are 4 old messges which it scans but are not
delivered. Does this make any sense?

The RBL check failing is I think due to our firewall which blocks entire IP
blocks. I need to check what IP it uses and port to allow traffic out/in
thru our firewall.

Thanks for all the help!

SW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Mailscanner not scanning e-mails


At 18:03 14/12/2003, you wrote:
>root       693  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    03:26   0:00 [MailScanner
><defunct>]
>root       809  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    03:26   0:00 [MailScanner
><defunct>]
>root       813  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    03:26   0:00 [MailScanner
><defunct>]
>root       821  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    03:26   0:00 [MailScanner
><defunct>]

Take a look at MailScanner entries in your maillog. Looks like a
configuration error. Best idea is to start from a default setup with no
local tweaks at all, then slowly introduce the extras.
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Julian Field
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