Webmail on localhost is not being scanned by MailScanner

Holger Nöfer holger at noefer.org
Sun Feb 25 22:17:27 CET 2007


Hi,

what do you mean with not scanned?
Not beeing sent by sendmail or not scanned for spam, filetypes and so on?

Have a look at /etc/MailScanner/rules/scan.messages.rules

Perhaps 127.0.0.1 is set to no.

Best regards,
Holger

At 16:35 25.02.2007, you wrote:

>I have just noticed mail sent from SquirrelMail running on the same 
>box that MailScanner runs on is not being scanned.
>
>Modified MailScanner.conf to include a file containing ques
>
>Incoming Queue Dir = /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/mqueue.in.list.conf
>/var/spool/mqueue.in
>/var/spool/clientmqueue
>
>
>Here are my sendmail processes -
>sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
>sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue (sendmail)
>sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
>sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue (sendmail)
>sendmail: Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
>sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
>sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue (sendmail)
>
>
>This kinda makes sense because sendmail needs to accept mail in a 
>queue.  MailScanner then needs to process and deliver back to 
>sendmail for delivery.
>
>I believe that mail generated on the localhost uses clientmqueue, 
>but I don't think MailScanner is working correctly with sendmail to 
>accomplish this.
>
>What am I missing ?
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