Problem with Sophos SAVI

Brent Strignano brent at MIRABITO.COM
Tue Nov 18 19:18:15 GMT 2003


Derek,

Here is how to switch to Plain Text Mode for a contact (like this list).

Open the contact and right click the email address line. Pick
properties.
        Or Right Click the email address after you type it on the to:
line.
Then set Internet Format to 'Send Plain Text Only'


Brent Strignano
System Administrator
Granite Capital Holdings
Sidney, NY

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Winkler [mailto:dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:06 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Problem with Sophos SAVI


As per below found... 
>I noticed that Config.pm has the line: 
> 
>print "Namelist is $namelist\n"; 
> 
Guess I could have just commented that out. 
Sorry about the HTML posts for some reason the Exchange server here
converts to HTML, only does it when I post to this list. When I post to
the MRTG list it doesn't do it.
Thanks, 
Derek 
-----Original Message----- 
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On 
Behalf Of Julian Field 
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:37 PM 
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: Re: Problem with Sophos SAVI 


Can you do 
cd /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner 
grep Namelist * 
please? 
At 17:16 18/11/2003, you wrote: 
>Using MailScanner 4.20-3, I know I need to upgrade. 
> 
>When using Sophos SAVI I get a lot of log entries such as: 
> 
>Nov 18 11:15:05 lime MailScanner[16383]: Virus Scanning: SophosSAVI
found 
>1 infections 
> 
>648 of them in a one hour period, whereas Clam only found 4 viruses in
the 
>same time period. 
> 
>I added a line, logging the commented out debug '#print STDERR
"Processing 
>line \"$_\" produced $Counter\n";', in SweepViruses.pm which logged the

>following: 
> 
>Nov 18 11:49:45 lime MailScanner[29594]: dwdebug: Processing line 
>"/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/29594/./hAIGmYU29609/msg-29594-6.txt: 
>OK\n" produced 0 
> 
>Nov 18 11:49:45 lime MailScanner[29594]: dwdebug: Processing line 
>"Namelist is /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/en/languages.conf\n" produced
1 
> 
>Nov 18 11:49:45 lime MailScanner[29594]: dwdebug: Processing line
"CLEAN:: 
>:: ./hAIGmYU29609/msg-29594-6.txt\n" produced 1 
> 
>Nov 18 11:49:50 lime MailScanner[29626]: dwdebug: Processing line 
>"/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/29626/./hAIGnTU29706.header: OK\n"
produced 0 
> 
>Nov 18 11:49:50 lime MailScanner[29626]: dwdebug: Processing line 
>"/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/29626/./hAIGnTU29706/msg-29626-1.txt: 
>OK\n" produced 0 
> 
>Nov 18 11:49:50 lime MailScanner[29626]: dwdebug: Processing line 
>"Namelist is /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/en/languages.conf\n" produced
1 
> 
>The log entries with: 
> 
>Processing line "Namelist is 
>/opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/en/languages.conf\n" produced 1 
> 
>looked suspicious to me. 
> 
>In ProcessSophosSAVIOutput, I added the following lines... 
> 
>   } elsif ($keyword =~ /^namelist/i) { 
>     return 0; 
> 
>seemed to fix it. Sorry I didn't keep the original SweepViruses.pm so I

>can't do a diff. 
> 
>I noticed that Config.pm has the line: 
> 
>print "Namelist is $namelist\n"; 
> 
>Thanks, 
> 
>Derek 
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