Problem after installing SpamAssassin on MailScanner

[Oliver Hookins]

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Julian Field wrote:
> Oliver Hookins wrote:
>
>> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> you need to install the latest MS (or at least 4.34) for it to work with
>>>  SA3.x. The SA 3.x API is different from the 2.x so you'll need to
>>> upgrade.
>>
>>
>>
>> OK I have now installed MS 4.36.4-1, and SpamAssassin and I believe
>> configured it all to work properly. Incoming emails appear to trigger
>> virus and content filtering, and there aren't any error messages about
>> exiting processes like there were before
>>
>> However now that the sendmail processes are split up into receiving mail
>> and processing the queue I am finding that the queue runner is not
>> touching anything in /var/spool/mqueue.
>>
>> Any ideas? Here's the directory listing:
>>
>> root at web:/opt/MailScanner # ls -la /var/spool/mqueue
>> total 56
>> drwxr-s---  2 smmsp smmsp 4096 2004-12-16 11:11 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  9 root  root  4096 2004-12-15 14:08 ..
>> -rw-rw----  1 smmsp smmsp   14 2004-12-15 14:40 dfiBF3dOYm020026
>> -rw-rw----  1 smmsp smmsp    6 2004-12-15 14:45 dfiBF3jCEV020094
>> -rw-rw----  1 smmsp smmsp  154 2004-12-15 15:45 dfiBF4i0HU023251
>> -rw-rw----  1 smmsp smmsp  125 2004-12-15 16:53 dfiBF5qlAS023679
>> -rw-rw----  1 smmsp smmsp   46 2004-12-16 10:59 dfiBFNvx58032373
>> -rw-rw----  1 smmsp smmsp  157 2004-12-16 11:10 dfiBG09HUG032463
>> -rw-------  1 root  smmsp  955 2004-12-15 16:44 qfiBF3dOYm020026
>> -rw-------  1 root  smmsp  817 2004-12-15 16:44 qfiBF3jCEV020094
>> -rw-------  1 root  smmsp  895 2004-12-15 16:44 qfiBF4i0HU023251
>> -rw-------  1 root  smmsp  882 2004-12-16 10:57 qfiBF5qlAS023679
>> -rw-------  1 root  smmsp  941 2004-12-16 10:59 qfiBFNvx58032373
>> -rw-------  1 root  smmsp  928 2004-12-16 11:11 qfiBG09HUG032463
>>
> The ownership of these files is wrong. The clientmqueue version of
> sendmail should be putting hem into /var/spool/clientmqueue instead of
> here. Check your startup script to ensure the right queues are being
> used for the right sendmails. All the files in mqueue should be owned by
> root. Set that, and these files should be delivered.

Yes I noticed that right after I posted (as usual). I changed the
ownership and they were all processed. I'm still trying to figure out
why the ownership was root.smmsp in the first place though.

Thanks for your help.

Oliver

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