mailscanner won't scan

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Fri Dec 14 17:18:40 GMT 2007


How did you configure the MTA - you need to tell it store the messages for MailScanner to pick up...

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Serhan Sevim
> Sent: 14 December 2007 17:12
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: mailscanner won't scan
>
> Well,first of all I'm not new to mailscanner.However, it's been 4 years
> since the last time I used it for some other company. Since then, things
> have been changed I guess. I successfully, installed and started
> Mailscanner, and the logs shows as:
>
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.65.3 starting...
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: Read 797 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: Read 4147 hostnames from the
> phishing blacklist
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: SpamAssassin temporary working
> directory is /tmp
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: Connected to SpamAssassin cache
> database
> Dec 13 19:28:16 server MailScanner[6081]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Dec 13 19:28:17 server MailScanner[6081]: I have found clamavmodule
> scanners
> installed, and will use them all by default.
> Dec 13 19:28:18 server MailScanner[6081]: Using locktype = flock
>
> Times 5 for each MailScanner process. I've checked everything working ok,
> emails are accepted ok, except one thing.. well, It seems like MailScanner
> doesn't even notice the emails are being received. It doesn't scan it, it
> doesn't tag it, no virus scans, no nothing.. Emails are slipping thru
> without even MailScanner knows it. Email server is running on the same
> server as MailScanner, so it can't be a by-pass problem either.
> It's currently running on default spamassassin and clamav.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance,
> Serhan.
>
>
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