DCC not scoring from within MailScanner

[Julian Field]

Sarah Trayser wrote:
> On 28/08/2007, Sarah Trayser <waytotheweb at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for all the replies.
>>
>> We're using dccproc, not dccifd.
>>
>> On 28/08/07, Gareth <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> The top 3 problems with getting DCC to work are :-
>>>
>>> 1) Firewall but this wont allow it to work from the command prompt for any
>>> user.
>>>       
>> Although we do run a firewall, that can't be the issue since it's
>> working from the command line.
>>
>>     
>>> 2) Permissions. Test it under the same user which mailscanner runs as.
>>>       
>> In my testing I did this. DCC works when I run a spamassassin test as
>> the mailscanner user, just not when MailScanner calls it, apparently.
>>
>>     
>>> 3) Path issues. Make sure you correctly have the dcc path set in the
>>> spamassassin configuration. This is the error I made which resulted in the
>>> same issue you are experiencing.
>>>       
>> Wouldn't this affect the command line test as well? Where would this
>> be set - mailscanner.cf > spam.assassin.prefs.conf? This is what I see
>> in that file:
>>
>> ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC
>> #dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
>> endif
>>
>> As far as I know we have not changed that so I assume it has always
>> been commented out.
>>     
>
>
> Got it working. All I did was uncomment the dcc_path line in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf. I'm not sure why it is
> commented out by default (if it is), or why it is apparently working
> this way on other peoples' servers but not ours, but at any rate with
> that line not commented out we are getting scores on the DCC_CHECK
> from within Mailscanner on all our servers.
>   
When you tested it from the command line, you will have a "login" shell 
running with a $PATH that probably includes /usr/local/bin. When 
MailScanner is started by init, there is no login shell and you will 
have a much shorter default $PATH, which doesn't usually include 
/usr/local/bin. The difference comes down to what is set in which 
"dot-files" in root's home directory. "init" won't usually have run any 
of these at all. On Solaris, this path is set in the /etc/default files, 
but I don't know where Linux sets it.

Jules

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