Sophos/MailScanner

[Martin Hepworth]

Lisa Wu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My server:
> Postfix 2.2.10
> Dovecot 1.0 beta 8
> Mailscanner 4.51.5
> SpamAssassin 3.1.1
> 
> Once in a while the server will fail to download its updates from Sophos.
> (The cause being that our T1 line went down). Then the mail log starts
> posting MailScanner error messages every 10 seconds until a successful
> update occurs: 
> 
> Sep 6 14:06:50 mail MailScanner[30864]: None of the files matched by the
> "Monitors For Sophos Updates" patterns exist! 
> 
> Because of this error the queue starts placing all messages on hold.
> 
> My solution (probably the wrong way to do this) was to create a script that
> runs every 10 minutes to manually release all held messages and flush the
> queue.
> 
> I've searched Google, I've searched the MailScanner archives, and I've
> contacted Sophos. I went over the different configurations options in
> attempts to figure out a way of working around this behavior. Would I have
> to temporarily comment out the Mailscanner portion of my Postfix config to
> allow for normal internal mail flow? I know I risk the chance of viruses if
> I do this, which is why I was hoping there's a way of using the old Sophos
> IDES.
> 
> Any help regarding this problem would be helpful. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lisa Wu
> 
Lisa

how are you updating the virus defs for Sophos?

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

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