debugging mailscanner

[Supun Rathnayake]

Hi Jules,

Thanks for the reply.

Before writing to the list, I did all those steps ( yes even went 
through the code and there I found that MS can debug most of the 
activities )
that is why I tried "MailScanner --debug " but it did not give me enough 
info what I wanted to trouble shoot my problem.

MailScanner --lint in fact detected the virus scanner correctly but did  
neither checked the test "Eicar" virus scanning nor gave any error there 
, but with the clamav

So finally what I did is , in parallel I set up and configured 
amavisd-new for virus scanning with kaspersky and clamav as above in 
MailScanner
and at the first instance itself it showed very clearly in mail logs 
that there is a permission problem with some log and virus database 
files pertaining to kaspersky
and within a matter of few minutes I was able to fix the setup.

Then later with the correct permission set on the kaspersky related 
files, I switched back to MailScanner and then it started virus scanning 
with the kaspersky + clamav and now even MailScanner --lint shows 
correct scanning of Eicar test virus by both virus scanners

So if MS was able to show me these error messages, or at lease a part of 
it, I could have got this setup up and running very early.
In fact I had to spent more than two weeks for this config, even after 
having used MailScanner for couple of years now.

It seems the kaspersky command line scanner is really slow compared to 
clamav, I might have to check KAV daemon version

but any way still I like MailScanner because of its' flexibility and 
versatility.


Thanks Guys,

Supun.




On 02/11/2010 03:41 PM, Julian Field wrote:
> MailScanner --lint
> will test out most of it and will show you what the virus scanners are 
> picking up. Also, check your maillog as all the virus scanner output 
> is logged in there.
>
> Beyond that, dig into the code :-)
>
> If you need any help, that's what we are here for!
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
> On 10/02/2010 07:31, Supun Rathnayake wrote:
>> Hi ,
>>
>> It would be great if someone could show me how to debug mailscanner
>>
>> I wanted to troubleshoot some virus scanning part, but when I run 
>> MailScanner in the debugging mode as follows ( with --debug flag )
>> it only gives a very few line  lines which is not sufficient to get 
>> into the actual problem.
>>
>>
>> # MailScanner --debug
>>
>>
>> In Debugging mode, not forking...
>> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>> Building a message batch to scan...
>>
>>
>> Have a batch of 1 message.
>> Stopping now as you are debugging me.
>>
>
> Jules
>