updated sendmail, now MailScanner isn't catching viruses

Matthew Bowman mbowman at UDCOM.COM
Mon Mar 10 16:52:03 GMT 2003


I first updated my sendmail on my RH 7.2 box then applied MailScanner
4.13-3. The only problem that I had  was spamc getting connection refused
to 127.0.0.1 (localhost), I circumvented that by using the -i <ip address>
flag with spamd in the rc script. No problems encountered with Virus
Scanning.

Matthew.





S Mohan <smohan at vsnl.com>
Sent by: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
03/10/2003 11:54 AM
Please respond to smohan


        To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
        cc:
        Subject:        Re: updated sendmail, now MailScanner isn't catching viruses


I had the same problem. Mails were stuck in mqueue.in and were not
scanned. I just reinstalled MialScanner after I upgraded sendmail and it
started working.

Reasons? I have not spent time to understand this as yet.

Mohan

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Jody Cleveland
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 7:40 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: updated sendmail, now MailScanner isn't catching viruses


> How about some more detailed info? How did you discover that it is not

> catching viruses any more? Are the MailScanner headers still in the
> mails? What does the log say?

MailScanner is running, and the headers of each message say it found it
to be clean. I just starting noticing that I wasn't getting any of the
messages saying that viruses are found. I also noticed this morning that
backup on our file server is catching viruses on our mail server. ( I
have a redhat 8 box that scans mail and sends it off to our exchange
server. We have a separate file server that backs up all our windows
boxes)

Jody



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