New install question - MailScanner-4.15-13 + McAfee virus scan - eicar test fails...sort of?`

[Richard Bollinger]

Thanks!  It was DejaVu all over again, as I made a similar mistake in my first MS install, long ago.
*blush*

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: New install question - MailScanner-4.15-13 + McAfee virus scan - eicar test
fails...sort of?`


> At 17:47 15/05/2003, you wrote:
> The path to the MailScanner "incoming" directory must be the *real* path,
> not a path including links. Otherwise it cannot parse the McAfee output as
> it doesn't know what directories to strip off the front of the report.
>
> It's in the comments in the MailScanner.conf file:
>
> # Note for McAfee users: do not use any symlinks with McAfee at all. It is
> #                        very strange but may not detect all viruses when
> #                        started from a symlink or scanning a directory path
> #                        including symlinks.
>
> That should be "/usr/local/MailScanner/var-4.15-13/incoming".
>
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