emails not scanned?

[Patel, Anjana]

Hello,

I'm a bit concerned about a problem that occurred yesterday.  

The setup is as follows:
Mailscanner v 4.28.4
Redhat Linux 
Exim 3.36

The current setup has been working fine for the last month or so but
yesterday I changed the config so that the spam.action.rules and
html2txt.rules called files (which contained the relevant addresses).  

Unfortunately due to typos, mailscanner was unable to find these files:

 
May  7 00:01:44 xxx MailScanner[20667]: Could not open ruleset's address
pattern list file /software/MailScanner/etc/rules/striphtmlspam, No such
file or directory
May  7 00:01:54 xxx MailScanner[20677]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.28.4 starting...

The maillog is filled up with the above messages with no indication of
any scanning/delivering messages.

The problem is that instead of mailscanner queuing up the files as I
would have expected, it delivered the files unscanned (i.e. not virus
checked or spam checked).  There were no mailscanner headers in the
email that I checked.  Obviously this was not mailscanner's fault but it
is still worrying as infected emails were delivered.  I was under the
impression that mailscanner was responsible for moving emails from one
queue to another AFTER they were scanned.  Can anyone explain what
happened here so I can put in some checks to prevent it happening again?

Thanks
Anjana

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