[dmecham@nitrodata.com: Re: mailscanner configuration oversight]

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:19:48 -0600
From: darwin <dmecham at nitrodata.com>
Subject: Re: mailscanner configuration oversight
To: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie at RFA.ORG>

Thanks Eric,

Tell your employer I will be faxing a large stack of
$50 dollar bills.... ;-D
You're worth twice what they pay you!!

The list I saw the post was  MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Those are all good suggestions - my first thought was
permissions too.

Here is the MailScanner -v output...

Running on
Linux xmail 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:36:05 EDT 2004 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
This is Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
This is Perl version 5.008003 (5.8.3)
This is MailScanner version 4.33.3
Postfix version 2.0.16
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.13    Archive::Zip
1.01    Carp
1.119     Convert::BinHex
1.00    DirHandle
1.05    Fcntl
2.72    File::Basename
2.07    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.06    File::Path
0.14    File::Temp
1.23    HTML::Entities
3.26    HTML::Parser
2.24    HTML::TokeParser
1.21    IO
1.10    IO::File
1.122    IO::Pipe
2.21    MIME::Base64
5.403     MIME::Decoder
5.403     MIME::Decoder::UU
5.403     MIME::Head
5.406     MIME::Parser
5.411     MIME::Tools
0.09    Net::CIDR
1.07    POSIX
1.76    Socket
0.04    Sys::Syslog
1.02    Time::localtime
Optional module versions are:
2.63    Mail::SpamAssassin
missing    Net::LDAP
missing    SAVI
missing    Mail::ClamAV
0.31    Net::DNS

Thanks and Best Regards,

Darwin



Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:48:13AM -0600, darwin wrote:
>
>
>And anyway,
>my employer pays me to run its servers, not yours. ;) (tongue-in-cheek,
>just joking, wink-wink, nudge-nudge, don't get offended, etc, etc. :) )
>btw, I sent my message to three lists ... which one did you get it from?
>
>My first guess would be the permissions on your postfix directories.
>Make sure they are owned by and accessible to postfix and that
>MailScanner is configured to run as postfix.
>
>Since you mention the hold queue, you must be using postfix 2.x and a
>single instance of postfix. I haven't yet done a set up like that.
>postfix in debian woody (stable release) is an older version that did
>not have the hold queue and we don't run testing on production boxes. I
>do have a debian testing box at home and intend to set up a single
>postfix mailscanner installation there, but it is a work in progress.
>
>One thing to try is turning on debugging for MailScanner. This is an
>option in your MailScanner.conf file. Once set the next invocation of
>mailscanner will not spawn any children and will run for only one batch
>while it spits out a ton of debug info to the console. Your problem
>should be fairly evident from that.
>
>-Eric Rz.
>
>
>
>
>




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