mailscanner not processing exim queue

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed May 4 20:59:16 IST 2005


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Run As User = exim
Run As Group = exim
Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/input
?

Arif Malik wrote:

>From my MailScanner.conf:
>
>Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim.in/input
>...
>MTA = exim
>
>
>[root at filter etc]# ls -la !$
>ls -la /var/spool/exim.in/input
>total 32
>drwxrwxrwx  2 exim exim 4096 May  4 10:56 .
>drwxr-x---  5 exim exim 4096 May  2 16:39 ..
>-rw-r-----  1 exim exim   24 May  4 10:56 1DTO6X-0003mH-2u-D
>-rw-r-----  1 exim exim 1556 May  4 10:56 1DTO6X-0003mH-2u-H
>
>anything else I can look for??
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:49 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: mailscanner not processing exim queue
>
>Check your Incoming Queue Directory point to /var/spool/exim.in/input
>and MTA = exim.
>
>Arif Malik wrote:
>
>
>
>>Not sure what is wrong - my first attempt running mailscanner... I
>>have exim now queing up mail in /var/spool/exim.in/input - which is
>>what i have mailscanner set to look at for incoming mail... my
>>/var/log/maillog shows only one thing ever:
>>
>>May  4 11:22:12 filter MailScanner[15045]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>Scanner version 4.31.2 starting...
>>There are no errors or anything, but all my mail just sits in
>>/var/spool/exim.in/input, and mailscanner doesn't scan/move them into
>>the outgoing directory. I have browsed the archives and didn't see
>>anyone having the same problem which makes me think its probably
>>something simple, but I have been going back over the configs over and
>>
>>
>
>
>
>>over and don't see what I'm missing.. any help is much appreciated.
>>Thanks!
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