My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation

[Timothy Barhorst]

Thanks to everyone. 

I wouldn't recommend installing MailScanner after flying back to the
U.S. from New Zealand. The brain doesn't seem to read numbers correctly!


-----Original Message-----
From: Stein, Mr. Fred [mailto:FStein at THEHILL.ORG] 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:59 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] My Problem with a New MailScanner
Installation

Latest non beta MailScanner is 4.38.10.1
Latest beta Mailscanner 4.39.3.1

Fred Stein 
Network Administrator 
The Hill School 
717 E. High Street
Pottstown, PA  19464
fstein at thehill.org 
www.thehill.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:52 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: My Problem with a New MailScanner Installation

latest MailScanner is 4.39.10-1

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



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


Timothy Barhorst wrote:
> 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
> 
>  
> 
> 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
> 
>  
> 
> I've installed several MailScanner installations before but these have

> me stumped. All suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Tim B.
> 
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