My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Timothy Barhorst
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:40 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation
>
> I've installed the latest Mailscanner (4.20-3 ), Sendmail (8.13.3)  and
> SpamAssassin (3.0.2)  on a new Fedora system ( kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp)
>
> I'm also using clamav-0.83.
>
>
>
> I've noticed two problems.
>
>
>
> First one is that when I use Spam Checks = yes,  then no mail gets
> delivered - it just repeats the following over and over in the log.
>
> If I set Spam Checks = no, then mail gets delivered - including spam.
>
>
>
> Feb 24 11:16:38 bilbo MailScanner[7679]: Using locktype = flock
>
> Feb 24 11:16:38 bilbo MailScanner[7679]: New Batch: Scanning 9 messages,
> 87563 bytes
>
> Feb 24 11:16:47 bilbo MailScanner[7681]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.20-3 starting...
>
> Feb 24 11:16:48 bilbo MailScanner[7681]: Using locktype = flock
>
>
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> The other problem is that my clamav doesn;'t seem to update properly. I
> get the following in the logs.
>
>
>
> Feb 23 23:01:01 bilbo update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
>
> Feb 23 23:01:01 bilbo update.virus.scanners: Updating clamav
>
> Feb 23 23:01:01 bilbo ClamAV-autoupdate[3684]: ClamAV updater failed
>
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>
> I've installed several MailScanner installations before but these have me
> stumped. All suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Tim B.
>

Look for two files, clamd.conf and freshclam.conf. On a linux system the are
located in /usr/local/etc.

Edit these files to add a # (comment out) in front of the word Example. Then
test by running freshclam.

Steve

Steve Swaney
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