Another Postfix Question

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jul 30 13:33:08 IST 2005


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Mike Kercher wrote:

>Again, I'm a postfix newbie from the sendmail world :)
>
>Sporadically, I'm seeing something like this in my logs and am not quite
>sure what it means:
>
>Jul 29 21:33:46 avenger postfix/smtpd[26727]: disconnect from
>mta237.brandfeatures.com[64.192.118.237]
>
>Jul 29 21:33:47 avenger MailScanner[26705]: Could not open file
>  
>
>>/var/spool/postfix/hold/26705/EF4DD336C035.ED194.header: No such file or
>>    
>>
>directory 
>
>Jul 29 21:33:47 avenger MailScanner[26705]: Cannot create + lock headers
>file /var/spool/postfix/hold/26705/EF4DD336C035.ED194.header,  
>
>Jul 29 21:33:47 avenger MailScanner[26732]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.43.8 starting... 
>
>Jul 29 21:33:48 avenger MailScanner[26700]: Could not open file
>  
>
>>/var/spool/postfix/hold/26700/EF4DD336C035.15B2E.header: No such file or
>>    
>>
>directory 
>
>Jul 29 21:33:48 avenger MailScanner[26700]: Cannot create + lock headers
>file /var/spool/postfix/hold/26700/EF4DD336C035.15B2E.header,  
>
>Jul 29 21:33:49 avenger MailScanner[26685]: Could not open file
>  
>
>>/var/spool/postfix/hold/26685/EF4DD336C035.BE4AC.header: No such file or
>>    
>>
>directory 
>
>Jul 29 21:33:49 avenger MailScanner[26685]: Cannot create + lock headers
>file /var/spool/postfix/hold/26685/EF4DD336C035.BE4AC.header,  
>
>Jul 29 21:33:50 avenger MailScanner[26680]: Could not open file
>  
>
>>/var/spool/postfix/hold/26680/EF4DD336C035.9FAE2.header: No such file or
>>    
>>
>directory 
>
>Jul 29 21:33:50 avenger MailScanner[26680]: Cannot create + lock headers
>file /var/spool/postfix/hold/26680/EF4DD336C035.9FAE2.header,  
>  
>
I think you have your "incoming work directory" set wrong. It should be 
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming, you appear to have it set to 
/var/spool/postfix/hold.

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