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[Isi Lawson]

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Hello All,

I have found a problem that I could find no details about on the maillist.
 Perhaps it is new.

I have had a working installation of MailScanner for about 6 months now.
Last night I added a ruleset that broke my installation.  Backing out the
ruleset allow it to work normally again.  I am looking for some insight on
2 things:

1)  my does this not work.
2)  how can i get my mail back.

Here is what happened.

I modified this setting (/etc/MailScanner.conf)
From:
 Non Spam Actions = deliver

To:
 Non Spam Actions = /etc/MailScanner/rules/nonspam.action.rules


I then added this file containing the rules
(/etc/MailScanner/rules/nonspam.action.rules)

# domain1.net
FromOrTo:       *@domain1.net     deliver

# domain2.com
FromOrTo:       *@domain2.com     deliver

# domain3.net
FromOrTo:       *@domain3.net     deliver

# Default Configuration
FromOrTo:       Default           deliver


I restart mailscanner (service MailScanner restart) and everything looks
like it comes up in correctly in the logs /var/log/maillog.

Jan 31 22:43:16 abaddon postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail
system
Jan 31 22:43:16 abaddon postfix/master[9080]: daemon started -- version 2.1.5
Jan 31 22:43:16 abaddon postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail
system is already running
Jan 31 22:43:17 abaddon MailScanner[9104]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.37.7 starting...
Jan 31 22:43:17 abaddon MailScanner[9104]: Config: calling custom init
function MailWatchLogging
Jan 31 22:43:17 abaddon MailScanner[9104]: Started SQL Logging child
Jan 31 22:43:18 abaddon MailScanner[9104]: Enabling SpamAssassin
auto-whitelist functionality...
Jan 31 22:43:20 abaddon MailScanner[9104]: Using locktype = flock


When i send a message through i also see normal logs: /var/log/maillog

Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/smtpd[2112]: connect from
web13806.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.175.16]
Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/smtpd[2112]: 874353800082:
client=web13806.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.175.16]
Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/cleanup[2114]: 874353800082: hold: header
Received: from web13806.mail.yahoo.com (web13806.mail.yahoo.
com [216.136.175.16])??by smtp01.purecomputing.net (Postfix) with SMTP id
874353800082??for <user at domain2.com>; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:
52:49  from web13806.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.175.16];
from=<user at domain.com> to=<user at domain2.com> proto=SMTP
helo=<web13806.mail.
yahoo.com>
Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/cleanup[2114]: 874353800082: hold: header
Received: (qmail 17030 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Feb 2005 04:
52:48 -0000 from web13806.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.175.16];
from=<user at domain.com> to=<user at domain2.com> proto=SMTP helo=<web13806.
mail.yahoo.com>
Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/cleanup[2114]: 874353800082:
message-id=<20050201045248.17028.qmail at web13806.mail.yahoo.com>
Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/cleanup[2114]: 874353800082: hold: header
Received: from [68.158.37.209] by web13806.mail.yahoo.com vi
a HTTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:52:48 PST from
web13806.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.175.16]; from=<user at domain.com>
to=<user at domain2.com>
proto=SMTP helo=<web13806.mail.yahoo.com>
Jan 31 23:52:49 abaddon postfix/smtpd[2112]: disconnect from
web13806.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.175.16]
Jan 31 23:52:51 abaddon MailScanner[2019]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
1480 bytes
Jan 31 23:52:52 abaddon MailScanner[2019]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Jan 31 23:52:54 abaddon MailScanner[2019]: Logging message
874353800082.53026 to SQL

And the transaction ends right there.  There is no more activity until i
send another test message.  What i see is the message come in normally,
get processed by mailscanner but never get put back on the outgoing queue
so that postfix can send it.

After much troubleshooting (i didn't correlate the rule addition with this
problem) I decided to remove the Non Spam rule in MailScanner.conf and
restarted. Everything started working just fine.

I have it working not but would like to know how to get the ruleset work
properly for Non Spam Actions and secondly how to recover my messages that
I can see came in (via the logs and mailwatch) but are not anywhere that i
have found on the system.  (thoughts)

Hardware: P4 2.4, 512Meg, 1x60gig, 1x100Mbit
Software: Redhat 9, Postfix, Spamassassin, DCC, Pyzor, Razor, MailWatch
RBLs: None in MTA, ORDB-RBL and SBL+XBL in MailScanner, None in SpamAssassin
Virus Scanners: ClamAV, BitDefender
Volume: ~500 messages/day

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