Attachment size further problem

[S Mohan]

Your virus engine is not called properly. Earlier posts exist on this.
If you are using Sophos, sophos-wrapper is the one called by
MailScanner. It has environment variable settings. I had the same
problem. I edited sophos-wrapper and commented the environmrnt variable
settings. Sophos-wrapper worked fine from there on. My logic was that
sweep was getting executed perfectly from command line. Sophos-wrapper
failed with the engine initialisation error. Thus, maybe due to changes
in default installs etc, the environment variable settings were not
needed and the dat files were where sweep expects them to be by default.

After this I ran sophos-wrapper and it went thro' well.

Mohan

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Howard Robinson
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:20 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Attachment size further problem


On 20 Mar 03, at 13:55, Julian Field wrote:
Thanks to those who replied to my email.
snipped first bits
> >  or send mail that limits the size of
> >an attachment.
>
> Yes, there is a
> O MaxMessageSize=
> setting.
this was remmed out so I unremmed it in sendmail.cf
restarted mailscanner
after a few moments I got the following mesage
Error initialising detection engine - missing part of virus data I
checked the date, time and version for the ide and its correct. I
re-remmed the size setting and restarted mailscanner. Still the same I
did a manual down load of the last signature just in case it had
corrupted and restarted mailscanner. Still the same. I emailed the list
and got it thrown back - rejected by Listserv.. Shut down and restarted
mailgateway sent  the test message and its now fine. Is there more to
amending the sendmail.cf than meets the eye?



Regards

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