--mailscanner wont scan emails with virus software {Scanned}

[Kevin Miller]

Just for grins, can you send an eicar test pattern (see www.eicar.com) to
yourself from outside the system?  The logs notwithstanding, if the scanner
is running it should catch it.  Do you actually have RAV and f-prot also
installed?

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
Administrator
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Lowe [mailto:ms at MLSIS.CO.UK]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:18 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: --mailscanner wont scan emails with virus software {Scanned}
>
>
>-----
>'HELP!'
>I have Mailscanner 4.23-11 installed on a server with postfix.
>
>I have installed mcafee,f-prot and rav virus scanning
>software, but any emails that come into the mail server, are
>NOT being scanned :(
>The subject line is being changed to include the 'scaned' tag,
>and mailscanner rejects filenames etc corectly, but there is
>no virus scanning happening :(
>I can tell the virus software isnt kicking in, because its a
>trial version of mcafee, and on all my other systems when an
>email is scanned, mcafee puts a load of junk in the log files
>saying that it is a trial version, this isnt happening on my
>new server.
>
>my mailscanner.conf file has the following in it :-
>%report-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en
>%etc-dir% = /etc/MailScanner

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