Why mailscanner fails recognizing a forwarded infected.

[Julian Field]

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At 07:37 07/09/2004, you wrote:
>On Monday 06 September 2004 17:46, you wrote:
> > At 12:39 06/09/2004, you wrote:
> > >I will send the sendmail' s pair to Nai and wait for news.
> > >have you got any other hints?
> >
> > Have you checked that the path to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming contains
> > no symlinks at all? The fact that your qf and df files you are checking
>
>Yes, I checked. No symlinks at all. I moved qf and df only for convenience.
>This is the only case I found. All other infected email I try to forward
>MailScanner finds a virus. I think if it's a symlinks problem MailScanner
>fails with all forward. Is not it?

If it's working once, it should be working all the time.

>In this hours I tested the same situation on a fedora core 1
>mailscanner-4.32.5-1
>uvscan 4.3.20

Sorry, no more great ideas at the moment.
:-(
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Julian Field
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