updated sendmail, now MailScanner isn't catching viruses

[Julian Field]

But MailScanner doesn't even use spamc...

At 16:52 10/03/2003, you wrote:
>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.
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>Matthew.
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>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
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>         To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: updated sendmail, now MailScanner isn't
> catching viruses
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>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.
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>Reasons? I have not spent time to understand this as yet.
>
>Mohan
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>-----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
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> > How about some more detailed info? How did you discover that it is not
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> > 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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