FW: upgraded mailscanner, no more quarantine

[Ken A]

Blaze King wrote:
> A new error, after I upgraded spamassassin (I'm not upgrading anything
> else, I swear)...
> 
> Mar 23 09:23:55 mail MailScanner[23766]: You want to use SpamAssassin
> but have not installed it.
> Mar 23 09:23:55 mail MailScanner[23766]: Please download
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/install-Clam-SA.tar.g
> z and unpack it and run ./install.sh to install it, then restart
> MailScanner.
> Mar 23 09:23:55 mail MailScanner[23766]: I will run without SpamAssassin
> for now, you will not detect much spam until you install SpamAssassin.
> 
> I have no idea how to configure SpamAssassin any further with
> MailScanner.  By the way, I did download that file and followed
> directions.  Didn't help.

Hi Blaze,
The best way to install MailScanner and SA on a linux box is to use the 
packages from the MailScanner site. If your installed SA is from your 
linux disto, you might need to rpm -e it and then use the MailScanner 
packages.
Ken A.  (just over the hill from you in Ukiah)
Pacific.Net

> 
> Blaze King
> Senior Network Administrator
> Lake County Office of Education
> (707) 262-4147
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Blaze
> King
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:45 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: upgraded mailscanner, no more quarantine
> 
> Ok I feel stupid.
> 
> MailScanner's quarantine was working just fine... I thought it wasn't
> because nothing new was in quarantine since the upgrade.  Well when just
> I sent myself an unacceptable file (.bat), it was blocked and
> quarantined.
> 
> I was testing the MailScanner with the "eicar" test virus, which it
> picked up and sent a notice to the postmaster e-mail account.  While
> watching the maillog, no quarantine was ever attempted, so there was no
> error.
> 
> Maybe the better question would be how do I modify what is quarantined
> and what isn't?  I'll be looking through MailScanner's config again...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Blaze King
> Senior Network Administrator
> Lake County Office of Education
> (707) 262-4147
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
> Martin.Hepworth
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 2:26 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: upgraded mailscanner, no more quarantine
> 
> 
> Blaze
> 
> Where's the old stuff then???? Odd
> 
> Make sure /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine isn't a sym link to
> somewhere else.
> 
> make sure the user you're running as (eg postfix or mailnull) can write
> to that dir. Also make I'd say the perms should be 640 at minimum,
> otherwise the apache group won't be able to read the files/dirs!
> 
> You can run in debug mode and see what happens...
> 
> su - <mailscanner user> -c "<path-to>/MailScanner -debug"
> 
> and see if it's comlaining about anything on the quarantine..
> 
> --
> 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 Blaze King
>> Sent: 22 March 2007 19:08
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: upgraded mailscanner, no more quarantine
>>
>> Hey I'm a long time mailscanner user, but this is my first post to the
>> list.  I recently upgraded to 4.58.9-1 on my rhel3 server.  Since
> then,
>> nothing ends up in quarantine.  Here's what I know...
>>
>>
>>
>> (/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf)
>>
>> Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>>
>> Quarantine User = root
>>
>> Quarantine Group = apache  (I'm using mailwatch)
>>
>> Quarantine Permissions = 0600
>>
>> Quarantine Infections = yes
>>
>> Quarantine Whole Message = yes
>>
>> Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
>>
>>
>>
>> [root at mail MailScanner]# ll /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>>
>> total 0
>>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions?  Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Blaze King
>>
>> Senior Network Administrator
>>
>> Lake County Office of Education
>>
>> (707) 262-4147
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
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