hold folder not getting processed

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Dec 25 09:15:52 GMT 2007


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This is due to a bug in get getopts code in Perl. Newer versions of 
MailScanner shouldn't do this, I put in a workaround which should be 
good enough to stop this happening.
If you run it with
MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf --debug
then it should work okay.

Guy Story KC5GOI wrote:
> Jules, this is what I got when I ran --debug:
>
> root at pccc-gw2:~# MailScanner --debug
> Cannot open config file --debug, No such file or directory at 
> /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 592.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 65.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 65.
>
> I also found out on the Ubuntu list that I am not alone. 
>
> Guy
>
> On Dec 23, 2007 1:03 PM, Julian Field < MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
> <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
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>     Guy Story wrote:
>     > I did triple check permissions today and I have a 770 for
>     postfix user
>     > and group on the hold and incoming folders.  That was a wild
>     guess and
>     > it failed.  I tried to use debug mode by starting MailScanner with
>     > --debug but that generated a compile error and refused to start.
>     >
>     That is *definitely* a bad sign. What exact output do you get when
>     you do a
>        MailScanner --debug
>     ? Please cut and paste the output of this into a reply to this
>     message.
>     It should start up, process one batch of mail as normal and then quit.
>     It certainly shouldn't produce any errors.
>     Do "MailScanner --lint" as well. And give us the output of that.
>     "MailScanner --version" will tell you the version numbers of
>     pretty much
>     everything involved that you have installed.
>
>     Jules
>
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>
> Guy Story KC5GOI
> kc5goi at gmail.com <mailto:kc5goi at gmail.com> 

Jules

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