emails not scanned?

[Pete]

Patel, Anjana wrote:

>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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Hardly fair to expect MailScanner to bhave as designed regardless of the
errors in the config - i guess you can only code for known
configurations, not unknown ?

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