Problems with F-Prot

[Alex Pimperton]

>Sep 22 15:04:09 server01 MailScanner[26556]: Either you've found a bug
>in MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has
changed!
>F-Prot said this "Error on reading ./1CA7hx-00074h-28.header". Please
>mail the author of MailScanner

>The normal reason for this is people running Debian-stable, as the version
>of MailScanner they ship with that is totally ancient. What version of
F->Prot are you using?

I'm using version 4.4.4 installed with the f-prot-install 0.5.11.

>I think in this case you have a permissions problem. The user you are
>running MailScanner as, doesn't have the ability to access (or possibly
>even write) to the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming directory. Hence the
>"Error on reading ..." errors.

I thought that but the permissions look ok to my untrained eye.

Snip of MailScanner.conf:

<Snip>
# If you want to change the ownership or permissions of the quarantine or #
temporary files created by MailScanner, please see the "Incoming Work"
# settings later in this file.
#Run As User = mail
#Run As User = postfix
Run As User = Debian-exim

# Group to run as (not normally used for sendmail) #Run As Group = mail #Run
As Group = postfix Run As Group = Debian-exim </Snip>

And output of ls -l on /var/spool/MailScanner:

server01:/var/spool/MailScanner# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-x---  2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Sep 10 17:56 archive
drwxrwx---  5 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Sep 22 16:00 incoming
drwxr-x---  4 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Sep 22 06:01 quarantine

...and /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

server01:/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming# ls -l total 12
drwx------  2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Sep 22 16:58 27968
drwx------  2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Sep 21 20:54 8961
drwx------  2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Sep 21 21:04 9038

Sorry for the mass of text but I didn't want to overlook something
blindingly obvious.

Regards

Alex

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