Webmail on localhost is not being scanned by MailScanner

BB brent.bolin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 22:27:19 CET 2007


It has to do with the queue it drops into from the localhost.  localhost
mail is sent to /var/spool/clientmqueue

That is never scanned by MailScanner.

As noted in a previous thread, Glenn's suggestion worked.

The default configuration for SquirrelMail wants to use localhost:25

On 2/25/07, Holger Nöfer <holger at noefer.org> wrote:
>
> 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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