Pb running mailscanner on debian box

thierry lenaig at WANADOO.FR
Tue May 25 18:01:32 IST 2004


Hi,
So i am running MailScanner :

mailscanner    4.30.3-1
spamassassin   2.63-1
sendmail       8.12.11
sensible-mda   8.12.11
mutt, fetchmail, procmail, f-prot and antivir ...

My MailScanner.conf:

Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue.in
Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue
Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine

MTA = sendmail
Sendmail = /usr/lib/sendmail
Sendmail2 = /usr/lib/sendmail

Virus Scanners = f-prot antivir

Quarantine Infections = yes
Quarantine Whole Message = yes
Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no

Spam Checks = yes
Use SpamAssassin = yes
Spam Actions = delete

Syslog Facility = mail
Log Spam = yes

/var/spool$ ll
total 4
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          120 2004-05-23 20:14 cron
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           72 2004-05-23 21:51 cups
drwxr-x---    2 mail     mail           48 2004-05-23 20:23 exim
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 2004-05-23 20:13 mail ->
../mail
drwxr-x---    5 root     root          128 2004-05-23 22:37 MailScanner
drwxr-s---    2 root     root           48 2004-05-25 18:22 mqueue
drwxrws---    2 smmsp    smmsp          48 2004-05-25 18:22
mqueue-client
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 2004-05-24 09:52 mqueue.in


/var/spool/MailScanner$ ll
total 2
drwxr-x---    2 root     root           48 2004-05-01 16:44 archive
drwxr-x---    4 root     root           96 2004-05-25 16:59 incoming
drwxr-x---    2 root     root           48 2004-05-01 16:44 quarantine


/etc/mail/sendmail.conf:

DAEMON_PARMS="bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in";

/var/run/MailScanner$ ls
total 4
-rw-------    1 root     root            5 2004-05-25 18:48
MailScanner.pid

Process:

 2993 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: MTA: accepting connections
 3001 ?        Ss     0:00 sendmail: MTA: Queue runner at 00:10:00 for
 /var/spool/mqueue

 448 ?        SNs    0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/share/MailScanner
 /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
 5449 ?        SN     0:00 /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/share/MailScanner
 /usr/sbin/MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

/var/log/mail.log:

May 25 18:50:13 toto sm-mta[5475]: i4PGoCnJ005475:
from=<zeikk040t at yahoo.com>, size=7772, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<n$y8-e408$9y$6y
fnb31$i632$d at n848.yut>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=toto.titi.org [127.0.0.1]
May 25 18:50:13 toto sm-mta[5480]: i4PGoCnJ005475:
to=<tata at localhost>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
pri=37978, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

May 25 18:48:35 toto MailScanner[2738]: MailScanner child caught a
SIGHUP
May 25 18:48:48 toto MailScanner[5449]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
May 25 18:48:48 toto MailScanner[5449]: Using locktype = flock


So, when i am running all of them, i can not see any mailscanner log
(check, spam, virus ...) in my /var/log/mail.log.
And if i stop mailscanner, i am still able to get and send e-mail.

Sorry for this very long email.

Thx


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Thierry

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