serious problem with Ensim Pro 3.7

Juan Pablo Abuyeres jpabuyer at TECNOERA.COM
Thu May 13 16:39:13 IST 2004


you would have to patch /etc/init.d/sendmail_app_init in order to
restablish your MailScanner.conf before restarting the service :)


On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:26, Michael Baird wrote:
> Yes, Ensim only uses MailScanner for Virus checking, it uses procmail
> rulesets in the individual Chroots. Previous versions of ensim did not
> use MailScanner and didn't handle any auto configuration (with 3.7 there
> is now a virus.rules file that it configures on or off depending on what
> is selected for the domain in the admin interface). It's definitely
> possible that it also makes sure spam checks is set to off in
> MailScanner.conf (I'm still testing 3.7, using 3.5), as to not spamcheck
> through MailScanner and procmail/spamc/spamd.
>
> Regards
> MIKE
>
> > I have pretty much the same setup, except for MailWatch, and ensim is
> > not changing the "Spam Checks = yes" setting... I don't know what
> > would be happening there.
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 09:46, Chris Yuzik wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Since upgrading my server from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora, and upgrading from
> > > Ensim Pro 3.5 to 3.7, I'm having some pretty annoying problems with the
> > > setup.
> > >
> > > I have a pretty advanced MailScanner setup with the latest versions of
> > > everything and most of the bells and whistles. I'm happy to say that my
> > > MailScanner setup is catching over 99% of spam with almost zero false
> > > positives. I also have my antivirus setup tweaked just the way I want
> > > it. Finally, I have MailWatch installed for stats/logging and easy
> > > quarantine releases.
> > >
> > > Here's the problem: When adding a new domain to the server OR modifiying
> > > anything with any of the existing domains, Ensim modifies my
> > > MailScanner.conf file and sets "Spam Checks = no", comments out the line
> > > for MailWatch, changes the incoming and outgoing directories to some
> > > ridiculous place. Fortunately, I keep a backup MailScanner.conf file so
> > > I can just copy over the screwed up file.
> > >
> > > Has anyone had any experience with this? Any idea what file(s) I would
> > > need to edit to stop this from happening? Or, would I be better off (and
> > > is it even possible) to simply move my "real" MailScanner directory
> > > somewhere else?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Juan Pablo Abuyeres <jpabuyer at tecnoera.com>
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