Mailscanner installation

[Mikael Chambon]

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Thanks for your answer Peter.
Now I am running my first real problem
with Mailscanner, if someone have an idear:

-MailScanner-install-4.35.11
-postfix-2.1.5
-clamav-0.80

I've configure Postfix to move all messages
in the hold directory:

header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
[root||mx] cat header_checks
/^Received:/ HOLD

I sent a light testing message with the eicar
virus as an attachment. This message is correctly
put in the hold directory and MailScanner seems to
detect it but don't process it correctly and keep
saying this message:

=======
Nov 27 04:17:13 mx MailScanner[6734]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.35.11 starting...
Nov 27 04:17:13 mx MailScanner[6734]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 27 04:17:13 mx MailScanner[6734]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
2811 bytes
Nov 27 04:17:13 mx MailScanner[6734]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Nov 27 04:17:23 mx MailScanner[6742]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.35.11 starting...
Nov 27 04:17:23 mx MailScanner[6742]: Using locktype = flock
Nov 27 04:17:23 mx MailScanner[6742]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
2811 bytes
=========

After 5 minutes, this message is still in the hold directory.

I've checked directories permissions but everything seems to be okay:

[root||mx] cd /var/spool/
[root||mx] ls
total 36
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Nov 19 02:56 .
drwxr-xr-x   17 root     root         4096 Nov 16 23:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Nov 19 02:56 MailScanner
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 16 06:05 anacron
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Nov 19 04:55 cron
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun  1  2000 lpd
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     mail         4096 Nov 27 03:46 mail
drwxr-x---    2 root     root         4096 Nov 19 02:56 mqueue.in
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Nov 18 07:59 postfix

[root||mx] cd MailScanner/
[root||mx] ls
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Nov 19 02:56 .
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Nov 19 02:56 ..
drwx------   12 postfix  root         4096 Nov 27 04:24 incoming
drwx------    2 postfix  root         4096 Nov 19 02:56 quarantine

And from MailScanner.conf

Run As User = postfix
Run As Group = postfix


Someone has an idea where I should look for an error ?
Is there a way to start MailScanner in debug mode ?

Thanks for your help.
--
Mikael


Peter Bonivart wrote:
> Mikael Chambon wrote:
>
>> 1) Can you confirm me that the MIME-tools perl
>> package included in the Mailscanner archive is already
>> patched ?
>
>
> Yes, the patches are included now, they worked against 5.411 and we're
> at 5.415 now I think.
>
>> 2) The Mailscanner archive include two MIME-Base64
>> package:
>>
>> MIME-Base64-3.03.tar.gz
>> MIME-Base64-3.05.tar.gz
>>
>> I've used 3.05, is that okay ?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>> 3) When I did a make test for MIME-Base64-3.05, one test
>> was skipped:
>>
>> t/bad-sv............skipped: Perl::API needed for this test
>>
>> Is that a problem ?
>>
>> 4) For File-Spec-0.82 I get the following output
>>
>> [root||mx] make test
>> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
>> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
>> t/filefunc..........ok
>> t/filespec..........ok, 53/246 skipped: various reasons
>> All tests successful, 53 subtests skipped.
>> Files=2, Tests=247,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.06 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.06
>> CPU)
>>
>> A lot of test were skipped, can it be a problem for Mailscanner ?
>>
>> 5) For Compress-Zlib-1.33, one test was skipped because encode was not
>> available, may it be a problem for Mailscanner ?
>
>
> It's common that one or more tests are skipped for various reasons, skip
> does not mean fail. As long as it still says "All tests successful", the
> important ones are ok. If it continues with a successful "make install"
> it's ok.
>
> After the install.sh script has finished, scroll back and look at
> everything carefully. I guess you didn't have install.sh the last time
> you installed, it sure makes it easier to install all Perl modules needed.
>
> --
> /Peter Bonivart
>
> --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
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