virus scan not available -> no virus check!

[Jason Ede]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Stephen Swaney
> Sent: 24 November 2009 12:38
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: virus scan not available -> no virus check!
> 
> 
> On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Rick Cooper wrote:
> 
> > ----Original Message----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
> Frank
> > Cusack Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:56 PM To:
> > mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info Subject: virus scan not available
> -> no
> > virus check!
> >
> >> I can't believe this is the default behavior.  Also, I can't find a
> >> way to change it.
> >>
> >>> Nov 23 18:09:05 localhost MailScanner[26984]: Virus and Content
> >>> Scanning: Starting Nov 23 18:09:05 localhost MailScanner[26997]:
> Cannot
> >>> find Socket (/tmp/clamd.socket) Exiting!
> >>
> >> and then mailscanner goes on to bless the email as "clean".  Note
> that
> >> I do not have virus scanning set to "auto", I have it explicitly set
> >> to "clamd".
> >>
> >> My preferred behavior would be to send an email to postmaster (or
> >> whoever) at some regular interval if the virus scanner is not
> available.
> >> Anyway to get some semblance of that configured?
> >>
> >> -frank
> >
> > As with any Daemon including MailScanner it's self you should have
> some kind
> > of monitoring installed that restarts and notifies you that is not
> > MailScanner's job. Should it send an email for each issue with all
> externals
> > and internals to the postmaster? It did the best thing I could think
> of, it
> > issues an error to the log and moves on. I guess it could shut
> MailScanner
> > down I suppose. It would appear to be a configuration error since
> clam
> > doesn't remove it's socket if it crashes and MailScanner --lint would
> have
> > caught it. Monit, Webmin, PingClamd.pl in a cron job, some kind of
> > monitoring should be in place for both ClamD and MailScanner it's
> self, and
> > what ever mta you are using...
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > --
> > This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> > believed to be clean.
> >
> >
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> You really need to implement an "out of band" monitoring system to
> monitor a mail server.
> 
> How's a mail server going to send a mail notification if mail is broken
> :)
> 
> Nagios provides a very good solution.

I do something similar as part of our zabbix system. Works quite well. Combined with a php script to dump mail queues to a web page and it works a treat.

Jason