Loosing mail after upgrading from 4.35 to 4.37.7

[Julian Field]

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I did have to change the functionality of the checks for the "Actions"
keywords in order to provide support for the "add arbitrary headers"
functionality. This affects how it can work out what you meant in the
Actions list, and so it can't deduce that you meant a rules file unless
you end it in .rule or .rules.
After all, what's the difference between
Spam Actions = header X-spam.actions.conf
and
Spam Actions = X-spam.actions.conf
It's hard to separate these automatically.
So you now have to put .rule or .rules on the end of the rules filename
so it can work out what is going on.

Sorry about that.

Paal Hagerup wrote:

>YES, it works!
>
>I worked with .conf i 4.35, is this a recent change?
>
>I have tested with other filenames and files that does not exist. MailScanner
>never complain and the mail just dissappear.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>Paal H.
>
>Quoting Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:
>
>
>
>>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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