HELP - Viruses are not detected

[Julian Field]

At 10:33 10/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> > I just noticed something very strange: the
> > filename.rules.conf is not obeyed and no viruses are caught
> > (tested with EICAR). This is incoming and outgoing... I first
> > noticed this with 4.13-3. Could this be a bug?
>
>Just wanted to let you know we found the problem. After an upgrade from
>4.12 to 4.13 I forgot to change the SystemDefs.pm in lib/MailScanner.
>Therefore $global::sed pointed to /bin/sed. Under FreeBSD this must be
>/usr/bin/sed. This caused the EximDiskStore to fail when reading the
>message body (since it uses sed there) and passing it over to the
>MIME::Parser. Therefore the message did not get extracted and since
>there was nothing to scan, all virus scanners told MS that everything is
>ok.
>
>So all FreeBSD users: Always watch the SystemDefs.pm settings! :-)

I have just added a check for all of these settings to make sure they are
correct. It won't start up without the programs being present and executable.
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Julian Field
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