MailScanner not scanning...

[Julian Field]

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At 17:42 03/09/2004, you wrote:
>I'm in the process of tearing my hair out.  The installation is on a
>fresh Fedora Core 2 system running Postfix 2.8.18-4 with MailScanner
>4.33.3-1.  MailScanner was installed via the RPM.  I've gone through the
>configuration over and over and I can't figure out what is missing.  The
>mail DOES go through, but it seems that there is no scanning at all
>ocurring.  I've configured it to use McAfee as the antivirus agent, but
>the EICAR files go through without being tagged as infected.  McAfee via
>the command line does find the viruses.
>
>I have this running on an older Red Hat 8 server with Postfix and I get
>the messages in the /var/log/maillog file such as:
>
>Sep  3 14:07:20 sparta MailScanner[8648]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>messages, 5194 bytes
>Sep  3 14:07:20 sparta MailScanner[8648]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting
>Sep  3 14:07:21 sparta MailScanner[8648]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages

Start by trying the troubleshooting section in the MAQ (address at the
bottom of every post).
You may have the location of the McAfee installation wrong in
/etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf.
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Julian Field
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PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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