incomingworkdir does not exist

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki rzewnickie at RFA.ORG
Mon Feb 2 23:49:04 GMT 2004


did you remember to set:

Run As User = postfix
Run As Group = postfix

?

-Eric Rz.

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:29:23PM -0000, Gareth wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I've installed MailScanner on Debain Woody, and configured Postfix to work
> with it using instructions at
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml.
>
> Everything seemed to go okay, and I am still receiving mail, but nothing is
> been filtered for spam and I have the following entries in /var/log/mail.log
> (about every 10 seconds!)
>
> Feb  2 23:20:04 lyon MailScanner[25810]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.26.7 starting...
> Feb  2 23:20:04 lyon MailScanner[25810]: Could not read directory
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> Feb  2 23:20:04 lyon MailScanner[25810]: Error in configuration file line
> 115, directory /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming for incomingworkdir does not
> exist (or is not readable)
>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming does exist, and is owned by postfix and the
> group postfix. Permissions are 750.
>
> drwxr-x---    2 mail     mail           48 Feb  1 17:12 archive
> drwxr-x---    2 postfix  postfix        48 Feb  1 17:12 incoming
> drwxr-x---    2 postfix  postfix        48 Feb  1 17:12 quarantine
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going wrong? I've googled, and can't find anyone
> else with this problem.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Gareth



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