Quarantine has stopped working

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Tue Jan 8 13:47:46 GMT 2008


Ronny

So how is the "Quarantine" user and group related to the postfix group? Looks like to got permissions mismatch to me..

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Martin Hepworth
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ronny T. Lampert
> Sent: 08 January 2008 13:35
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Quarantine has stopped working
>
> Hi,
>
> somehow my quarantine mechanism has stopped working. It DID work, and
> stopped some days ago, and I cannot tell you why, I don't even have the
> faintest idea.
>
> Any hints, how to debug it... ?
>
>
>
> Config:
>
> Run As User = postfix
> Run As Group = postfix
>
> Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
> Quarantine User =
> Quarantine Group =
> Quarantine Permissions = 0600
> Quarantine Infections = yes
> Quarantine Silent Viruses = no
> Quarantine Modified Body = no
> Quarantine Whole Message = no
> Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
>
>
> #> ls -ld /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/
>
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix postfix 48 Jan  7 18:24
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine//
>
>
> /var/log/maillog:
>
> Jan  8 14:16:37 filter MailScanner[26546]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Jan  8 14:16:37 filter MailScanner[26546]: ::INFECTED::
> Eicar-Test-Signature:
> : ./62222E5.E92AC/eicar.txt
> Jan  8 14:16:37 filter MailScanner[26546]: ::INFECTED::
> Eicar-Test-Signature:
> : ./62222E5.E92AC/test.zip
> Jan  8 14:16:37 filter MailScanner[26546]: Virus Scanning: ClamAVModule
> found 2 infections
> Jan  8 14:16:37 filter MailScanner[26546]: Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
> Jan  8 14:16:37 filter MailScanner[26546]: Requeue: 62222E5.E92AC to
> A1C34148
>
>
> It used to have something like
>
> Jan  3 14:11:43 filter MailScanner[31198]: Saved entire message to
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20080103/69AA31B3.97AD0
>
> in the log.
>
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