mailscanner won't scan

[Serhan Sevim]

Martin,
That did the trick. I forgot to inform postfix to hold the messages first.
It works now. Too quick installation and the results are obvious. :)
BTW somebody else asked what MTA, it's configured over postfix.
Thanks,
Serhan.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin.Hepworth
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: mailscanner won't scan
> 
> 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
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> > -----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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