FW: MailScanner not catching eicar

Alex Neuman alex at nkpanama.com
Fri Sep 30 23:31:02 IST 2005


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You're probably running a separate copy of sendmail, receiving the 
messages without processing by MailScanner.
JD Doelitzsch wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JD Doelitzsch [mailto:jd at baritec.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:46 PM
> To: MailScanner mailing list
> Subject: MailScanner not catching eicar
>
>
> Hey guys it's been a while since i wrote to the list but once again im
> stumped.
>
> Im running Fedora core 1 the latest from RHN, installed clam AV 8.7 and the
> lastest MailScanner build. Sendmail is pushing the mail to my "exchange"
> server but it doesn't seem like Mailscanner is getting to it. I originally
> thought that it was the clamav-wrapper which pointed to /usr/bin instead of
> usr/local/bin so once i corrected it worked fine when I ran it. I looked at
> the webinfo that said Add the domain name to /etc/mail/relay-domains. I
> didn't have that file so I created it with mydomain.com in it. I look at top
> and when email comes in I see the sendmail process but no mailscanner or
> clamscan. I restart Mailscanner to verify its up and its up.
> MailScanner.conf looks okay to me, so im fresh out of ideas. anyone care to
> take a shot?
>
> -JD
>
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