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[Julian Field]

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You have set the "MTA" setting in MailScanner.conf haven't you? That's
one I often forget to set, and it just sits there doing nowt.

Matthew Bowman wrote:

>hostname returns the correct hostname.   I just can't to seem to figure
>out why MailScanner won't read the mqueue.in folder. The permissions are
>fine.
>
>SA is enabled
>Bayes is disabled (for the moment)
>AWL is disabled
>f-prot is enabled
>Marco Benton - BOFH wrote:
>
>
>
>>Matthew Bowman wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Without SA or Virus Scanners on all the debug I get is
>>>
>>>In Debugging mode, not forking...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>From maillog:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Nov 29 11:41:51 smithers MailScanner[2682]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>>Scanner version 4.35.11 starting...
>>>Nov 29 11:41:51 smithers MailScanner[2682]: lock.pl sees Config
>>>LockType
>>>=  flock
>>>Nov 29 11:41:51 smithers MailScanner[2682]: lock.pl sees have_module
>>>=  0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>is the hostname correct? is you do a "hostname" does it come back with
>>the hostname or does it come back with "--fqdn"?  ive seen this problem
>>on Solaris, dont know about Linux.
>>
>>
>
>For the archive, this is caused by a bad bug in Sys::Hostname::Long.
>This module only works on GNU systems (including Linux), and has to be
>hacked by hand (or just not installed) on Solaris and other non-GNU
>systems. Search the code for "--fqdn" and you will see that it is wrong.
>
>

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