Mail loss after upgrading to 4.40.11-1 due to missing .rules suffix

David Hooton david.hooton at GMAIL.COM
Fri Sep 2 03:52:34 IST 2005


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On 9/2/05, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Is it possible to make MailScanner not load in this situation then?  I
> >have just spent hours chasing this issue and lost some mail as a
> >result.
> >
> The convention is only needed for a few of the configuration options,
> but I will take a look at working out where it needs enforcing and add
> some more error checks there. I suspect insisting on it where the
> configuration option refers to a filename may be all that's needed.
> 
> Do you know of any places it has to be right?

The Spam, HighScoring Spam and Clean message actions for a start.  I'm
no sure about the rest, these are the only ones which caught me out so
far.
-- 
Regards,

David Hooton

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