Prombem with rule actions

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Tue Sep 4 13:37:26 IST 2007


I tried the following aswell as an alternative and it didn't store the
message either.

SpamAssassin Rule Actions = BAYES_99=>store,non-deliver

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:22, Gareth wrote:
> Thanks for that. I have changed it to postfix but I dont think it makes
> any real difference since it is already running as postfix so it could
> not change the user to root anyway.
> 
> I changed my high scoring spam actions to add the deliver option and an
> incoming high scoring spam and virus was detected and copies were saved
> in the following places :-
> 20070904/spam/CF509AA0090.2CC09
> 20070904/CF509AA0090.2CC09/message
> i.e it worked fine and two copies of the message was saved. That is fine
> with me.
> 
> I then switched to using
> SpamAssassin Rule Actions = SpamScore>=20=>store,non-deliver
> 
> A few spams with a score of >20 came in and they were not delivered but
> still were not logged in the spam directory.
> 
> Previously when I had a spam with score >20 which was also identified as
> a virus then nothing was stored also not even to the virus store which
> seems very wrong.
> 
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 09:51, Glenn Steen wrote:
> > 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
> > -- 
> > -- Glenn
> > email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> > work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se



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