MailScanner issue with postfix

[Sylvain MEDEOT]

Hi,

Well, that may be the problem. How can I check that ? Anyway, if the
messages are not put in the outgoing queue, can they be delivered anyway ?

By looking into /var/spool/postfix and /var/spool/postfix.in, I've also
seen that I have in both a subdirectory (postfix-postfix.in)/deferred and
(postfix-postfix.in)/defer... Is it normal ? If I delete them, they are
created again when postfix starts...

I tried to replace in MailScanner.conf the line
Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix.in/deferred

by

Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix.in/defer

but no success...

I think is it picking up the messages and then putting them in the
outgoing queue since

Sylvain MEDEOT
Ville de Pontoise

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:20:16 +0100, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>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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>Julian Field
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