MailScanner issue with postfix

[Julian Field]

But is it actually picking up the messages and then putting them in the
outgoing queue?
Or is it leaving them in the incoming queue
(/var/spool/postfix.in/deferred) and never collecting them?

At 17:09 20/06/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am setting up MailScanner on a Mandrake 7.2 mail server with Postfix. I
>followed step by step the installation procedure
>(/etc/postfix, /etc/postfix.in, modifications of main.cf and master.cf).
>
>This is not the first mail server I am protecting with MailScanner... But
>this is the oldest one since I had no problems with newest releases of
>Mandrake...
>
>This server is running postfix-19991231_pl08-5mdk. After the installation
>of MailScanner (everything fine) with McAfee, I can send and receive mails
>as usually... But, the mails are never scanned...
>
>Nothing special in the logs :
>Jun 20 17:51:19 intranet MailScanner[1182]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.21-9 starting...
>Jun 20 17:51:19 intranet MailScanner[1182]: Using locktype = flock
>
>If I try manually to run /var/lib/MailScanner/mcafee-wrapper eicar.com, it
>works... But the mails are never scanned !
>
>In fact, I am sure that this script is never called by MailScanner since I
>replaced it with a different one to trace what was really happening...
>
>Of course, /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf includes the following lines :
>
>Virus Scanning = yes
>Virus Scanners = mcafee
>
>and /usr/lib/MailScanner/mcafee-wrapper is pointing to
>
>PackageDir=/usr/local/uvscan
>prog=uvscan # `basename $0`
>datDIR=$PackageDir
>
>ls /usr/local/uvscan -l gives the following :
>
>drwxr-xr-x    2 postfix  root         4096 jun 20 09:54 4272/
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 postfix  root           14 jun 20 09:54 clean.dat ->
>4272/clean.dat
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root        10469 jun 20 09:17 contact.txt
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root       466306 jun 20 09:17 e4240upg.pdf
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 postfix  root           17 jun 20 09:54 internet.dat ->
>4272/internet.dat
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 postfix  root           15 jun 20 09:17 liblnxfv.so -
> > ./liblnxfv.so.4*
>-r-xr-xr-x    1 postfix  root      2593332 jun 20 09:17 liblnxfv.so.4*
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root         1056 jun 20 09:17 license.dat
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root         1705 jun 20 09:17 license.txt
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root        37721 jun 20 09:17 messages.dat
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 postfix  root           14 jun 20 09:54 names.dat ->
>4272/names.dat
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root        16222 jun 20 09:17 readme.txt
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 postfix  root           13 jun 20 09:54 scan.dat ->
>4272/scan.dat
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root         5546 jun 20 09:17 signlic.txt
>-r-xr-xr-x    1 postfix  root         6342 jun 20 09:18 uninstall-uvscan*
>-r-xr-xr-x    1 postfix  root       126711 jun 20 09:17 uvscan*
>-r--r--r--    1 postfix  root        13385 jun 20 09:18 uvscan.1
>
>Any idea ?
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Sylvain MEDEOT
>Ville de Pontoise - France

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