My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation

[Martin Hepworth]

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latest MailScanner is 4.39.10-1

if you are running 4.20 then it won't run SA 3.x at all.



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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Timothy Barhorst wrote:
> I^Òve 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^Òm also using clamav-0.83.
> 
>  
> 
> I^Òve noticed two problems.
> 
>  
> 
> First one is that when I use Spam Checks = yes,  then no mail gets 
> delivered ^Ö it just repeats the following over and over in the log.
> 
> If I set Spam Checks = no, then mail gets delivered ^Ö 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
> 
>  
> 
> The other problem is that my clamav doesn;^Òt 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
> 
>  
> 
> I^Òve installed several MailScanner installations before but these have 
> me stumped. All suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Tim B.
> 
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