Prombem with rule actions

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 09:51:04 IST 2007


On 03/09/07, Gareth <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com> wrote:
> In MailScanner.conf I have :-
> Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> Quarantine User = root
> Quarantine Group = apache
> Quarantine Permissions = 0660

Hm, Uer set to root.... What MTA are you using Gareth? I thought you
were a postmixer like me:-)... In which case that isn't very likely to
be correct... Then again...

> However all quarantine entries are stored in the format :-
> %quarantine-dir%/<<date>>/<<msgid>> and they are viruses and blocked
> attachments.
... that this works indicate that the settings are correct for your
setup (either another MTA, or PF run as root, I presume... Or some
sticky bit magic:). I presume you've linted a few times, without any
real errors?

> I am assuming this is correct for the virus quaranteen?
Yes.

> If that is the case then MailScanner does not seem to be creating the
> additional 'spam' etc... subdirectories for some reason.
Seems so, yes.

> Are you sure the format is not %quarantine-dir%/spam/<<date>>/<<msgid>> as
> if that was the case it could just be the issue that the spam directory does
> not exist.
Yes we're sure that isn't the case. Steve and Jules know this pretty
... intimately:-).

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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