Loosing mail after upgrading from 4.35 to 4.37.7

[Julian Field]

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What happens if you call the rules files a name that ends in .rule or
.rules ?

It's also normally written as
Non Spam Actions =

Paal Hagerup wrote:

>Sorry, what I mean is <files>, setting the parameters to an external file.  Ex.
>/etc/MailScanner/rules/nonspam.action.conf and
>/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.action.conf. Just tried to save som space :)
>
>Paal H.
>
>Quoting Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:
>
>
>
>>"files" is not a valid spam action.
>>
>>Paal Hagerup wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>After upgrading to 4.36.7 today we suddenly stopped receiving mail.
>>>
>>>Mail gets accepted by sendmail, MailScanner does spam checking and the
>>>virusscan starts. Everything looks ok in the log but the mail just
>>>dissappears.
>>>
>>>Turning off virusscanning results inn mail being delivered again.
>>>
>>>Inn MailScanner.conf we use the following settings:
>>>Spam Actions = /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.actions.conf
>>>Non Spam Actions = /etc/MailScanner/rules/nonspam.actions.conf
>>>
>>>After turning virusscanning on and setting these to store deliver and
>>>
>>>
>>deliver
>>
>>
>>>everything works.
>>>
>>>In short:
>>>Virus Scanning = yes
>>>and
>>>(Non) Spam Actions = files
>>>results in no mail
>>>
>>>Virus Scanning = yes
>>>and
>>>(Non) Spam Actions = store deliver
>>>results in mail
>>>
>>>Virus Scanning = no
>>>and
>>>(Non) Spam Actions = store deliver or files
>>>results in mail
>>>
>>>Im not good at explaining but I hope some of you understand.
>>>
>>>Have I missed someting or is this a bug?
>>>
>>>Mailscanner is running on RH3.
>>>
>>>Paal H.
>>>
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