mailscanner not processing exim queue

[Martin Hepworth]

After you've chnaged the MailScanner.conf ...

STOP mailscanner
then run checkmailscanner, it will dump its output to the terminal you
are using..


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


Arif Malik wrote:
> Thank you Martin - actually since I sent my email I have change my conf
> to show this:
>
> # Set Debug to "yes" to stop it running as a daemon and just process
> # one batch of messages and then exit.
> Debug = yes
>
> # Do you want to debug SpamAssassin from within MailScanner?
> Debug SpamAssassin = yes
>
> and still I get the same output in the logs:
> May  5 08:30:07 filter MailScanner[7065]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner versi
> on 4.31.2 starting...
> May  5 08:30:17 filter MailScanner[7069]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner versi
> on 4.31.2 starting...
> May  5 08:30:27 filter MailScanner[7072]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner versi
> on 4.31.2 starting...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:02 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: mailscanner not processing exim queue
>
> Arif
>
> in MailScanner.conf set both Debug values to 'YES' stop mailScanner and
> rune check_mailscanner and post the output to here if it doesn't make
> any sense.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> 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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