Quarantine configuration problem

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 3 19:01:08 GMT 2003


At 18:44 03/01/2003, you wrote:
>I have the following quarantine specific stuff specified in
>mailscanner.conf:
>
>Action = delete
>Quarantine Whole Message = no
>Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine

"Action" isn't a valid option in MailScanner 4.x.
What you are looking for is
         Quarantine Infections = no
(the default supplied value is "yes").

>I thought "Action = delete" was sufficient to disable quarantining, but
>messages are still being quarantined as follows:
>
>-- begin log entries --
>Jan  3 11:38:02 noturus MailScanner[21587]: New Batch: Scanning 6 messages,
>68717 bytes
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Content Checks: Detected
>Microsoft-specific exploits in h03Ibo424800
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Content Checks: Found 1 problems
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Saved infected
>"msg-21587-145.html" to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030103/h03Ibo
>424800
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Uninfected: Delivered 5 messages
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Cleaned: Delivered 1 cleaned
>messages
>Jan  3 11:38:03 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Sender Warnings: Delivered 1
>warnings to virus senders
>Jan  3 11:38:04 noturus MailScanner[21587]: Notices: Warned about 1 messages
>-- end log entries --
>
>What other parameters I need to modify to make MS stop quarantining
>messages? I don't have any deny rules in filenames.rules.conf so nothing
>should be happening there.
>
>Setup is RH 7.3, MailScanner 4.11-1, SpamAssasssin 2.42.
>
>Thanks,
>
>jbh

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