More errors.

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Dec 18 17:54:00 GMT 2003


At 17:40 18/12/2003, you wrote:
>Latest info:
>
> From tail -f /var/log/maillog:
>
>Dec 18 18:37:26 gateway MailScanner[3404]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.24-5 starting...
>Dec 18 18:37:27 gateway MailScanner[3404]: Could not read directory
>/var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr
>Dec 18 18:37:27 gateway MailScanner[3404]: Error in configuration file
>line 101, directory /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr for incomingworkdir
>does not exist (or is not readable)
>Dec 18 18:37:30 gateway ipop3d[3405]: pop3 service init from 192.168.1.169
>Dec 18 18:37:30 gateway ipop3d[3405]: Login user=eja
>host=[192.168.1.169] nmsgs=0/0
>Dec 18 18:37:33 gateway ipop3d[3405]: Logout user=eja
>host=[192.168.1.169] nmsgs=0 ndele=0
>Dec 18 18:37:36 gateway MailScanner[3428]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.24-5 starting...
>Dec 18 18:37:37 gateway MailScanner[3428]: Could not read directory
>/var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr
>Dec 18 18:37:38 gateway MailScanner[3428]: Error in configuration file
>line 101, directory /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr for incomingworkdir
>does not exist (or is not readable)
>
>And also mails cannot be fetched as shown in the logfile.
>
>
> From /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
>
># Set where to unpack incoming messages before scanning them
>Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr

That's completely wrong. Please read the comment. Why would you want to
unpack incoming messages into a pipe called qmgr? Surely unpacking into a
directory would make more sense. I really do try to document these things
as clearly as possible. Put it back to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming like
it was before you started tweaking.
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