deliver rules don't work 100%

Falke Bruinsma falke at innersource.com
Thu Sep 25 18:19:31 IST 2003


Hello

It appears some of the deliver rules aren't working right.
delete seems to delete the spam messages just fine, but nothing is logged in
the logfile
attachment seems to delete the spam messages, but nothing is logged in the
logfile
deliver works fine, and something is logged:  Uninfected: Delivered XX
messages

I noticed that things seem to go wrong at the following line:
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: Created attachment dirs for 0
messages
After that I expected something like: Uninfected: Attached 2 messages
But following the 0 directories created, nothing else is logged... the
messages seem to have been dropped! The 'About to deliver 2 messages'
statement is never logged when the deliver rule is anything other than
'deliver'

What could be wrong?
Below are two log entries created using Debug turned on.. The first one
processes 2 spam messages to be 'deliver'ed, which works fine. The second
one processes 2 spam messages that should be 'attached' that are lost.

Thank you,
    -Falke Bruinsma


Working deliver method 'deliver'
Sep 25 11:51:38 violet MailScanner[11843]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 25 11:51:40 violet MailScanner[11843]: lock.pl sees Config  LockType =
flock
Sep 25 11:51:40 violet MailScanner[11843]: lock.pl sees have_module =  0
Sep 25 11:51:40 violet MailScanner[11843]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 25 11:51:40 violet MailScanner[11843]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
17093 bytes
Sep 25 11:51:42 violet MailScanner[11843]: RBL Checks: returned 0
Sep 25 11:51:43 violet MailScanner[11843]: SpamAssassin returned 0
Sep 25 11:51:43 violet MailScanner[11843]: RBL Checks: returned 0
Sep 25 11:51:44 violet MailScanner[11843]: SpamAssassin returned 0
Sep 25 11:51:44 violet MailScanner[11843]: Spam Checks: Found 2 spam
messages
Sep 25 11:51:44 violet MailScanner[11843]: Created attachment dirs for 2
messages
Sep 25 11:51:45 violet MailScanner[11843]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 25 11:51:45 violet MailScanner[11843]: Commencing scanning by f-prot...
Sep 25 11:51:46 violet MailScanner[11843]: Completed scanning by f-prot
Sep 25 11:51:46 violet MailScanner[11843]: About to deliver 2 messages
Sep 25 11:51:46 violet MailScanner[11843]: Uninfected: Delivered 2 messages
Sep 25 11:51:46 violet MailScanner[11843]: MailScanner child dying of old
age

NON working deliver method 'attachment':
Sep 25 11:54:09 violet MailScanner[11912]: lock.pl sees Config  LockType =
flock
Sep 25 11:54:09 violet MailScanner[11912]: lock.pl sees have_module =  0
Sep 25 11:54:09 violet MailScanner[11912]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 25 11:54:09 violet MailScanner[11912]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
29914 bytes
Sep 25 11:54:15 violet MailScanner[11912]: RBL Checks: returned 0
Sep 25 11:54:16 violet MailScanner[11912]: SpamAssassin returned 0
Sep 25 11:54:16 violet MailScanner[11912]: RBL Checks: returned 0
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: SpamAssassin returned 0
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: Spam Checks: Found 2 spam
messages
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: Created attachment dirs for 0
messages
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: Commencing scanning by f-prot...
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: Completed scanning by f-prot
Sep 25 11:54:17 violet MailScanner[11912]: MailScanner child dying of old
age




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