Problems MailScanner 4.78.17

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Nov 24 10:48:57 GMT 2009



On 24/11/2009 10:06, ThB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 23/11/2009 19:54, Julian Field wrote:
>    
>>> Excerpt from output of MailScanner --changed
>>> (I added some formatting to improve readability)
>>>
>>> The above is what I expected. But the paths for "Processing.db" and
>>> "SpamAssassin.cache.db" also show up in "incomingqueuedir" but with the
>>> default values.
>>>
>>> Option Name:
>>>     incomingqueuedir
>>> Default:
>>>     /var/spool/mqueue.in
>>> Current:
>>>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/input,\
>>>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks,\
>>>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/msglog,\
>>>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Processing.db,\
>>>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp,\
>>>     /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
>>>
>>>        
>> Please show me exactly what your MailScanner.conf file shows for the
>> "Incoming Queue Dir =" setting.
>>      
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/*
>
> I'm using Exim as mailer and when removing the "*" at the final, then
> MailScanner does not detect any new messages in the queue.
>    
That will be your problem. It is doing exactly what you told it to. You 
probably meant to put
Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim.in/input

Please read the docs at http://www.mailscanner.info/exim.html

>
> Trying to use a configuration file containing the 2 exim directories
> (input, msglog).
>
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/exim.queue.conf
>
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/exim.queue.conf:
>    /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/input
>    /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/msglog
>
> This configuration works well.
>
>
> Last try, using the exim input directory as queue dir
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/input
>
> This setting also works, but I'm not sure if exim's msglog is cleaned up
> properly.
>
> So for now I have at least one correct working configuration.
>
> Thanks&  regards
> Thomas
>
>
>    

Jules

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