Not Scanning incoming Mails

Mikael Syska mikael at syska.dk
Sun Jan 17 00:21:48 GMT 2010


Hi,

So you "think" its not working ...

You say outgoing ... which is also incoming to the mail server ...
Its like ...
[client] -> [server] -> [recipient]

So how do you define "incoming" and "outgoing" ... ? :-)

I pretty sure its working as it is now ... but look at my comments below

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:59 AM, MS Help <mailscanner at the-admin.net> wrote:
> Hi all out there,
>
> i got a problem using MailScanner on a Debian 5 machine with postfix.
>
> I installed everything following this howto:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-spamsnake-ubuntu-8.04-p2
>
> Everything is working so far, but i think, that incoming mails are not scanned from mailscanner.
>

{snip]

>
> Jan 16 18:41:25 mx01 postfix/smtpd[4026]: connect from unknown[172.19.xx.xx]
> Jan 16 18:41:25 mx01 postfix/smtpd[4026]: F27B38A3D9: client=unknown[172.19.xx.xx]
> Jan 16 18:41:25 mx01 postfix/cleanup[4279]: F27B38A3D9: hold: header Received: from excas01.domainnet (unknown [172.19.xx.xx])??by mx02.domain.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F27B38A3D9??for <user at example.com>; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:41:25 +0100 (CET) from unknown[172.19.xx.xx]; from=<user at domain.net> to=<user at example.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<excas01.domain.net>
> Jan 16 18:41:25 mx01 postfix/cleanup[4279]: F27B38A3D9: message-id=<C75A28E7F21EB141ABAEA4652B2C72653560B4C2 at exmbs 01.domain.net>
> Jan 16 18:41:26 mx01 postfix/smtpd[4026]: disconnect from unknown[172.19.xx.xx]
> Jan 16 18:41:28 mx01 MailScanner[3529]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 3485 bytes
> Jan 16 18:41:30 mx01 MailScanner[3529]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam messages
> Jan 16 18:41:30 mx01 MailScanner[3529]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Jan 16 18:41:32 mx01 MailScanner[3529]: Requeue: F27B38A3D9.9123E to 0B9DE8A3DA
> Jan 16 18:41:32 mx01 postfix/qmgr[18829]: 0B9DE8A3DA: from=<user at domain.net>, size=2926, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jan 16 18:41:32 mx01 MailScanner[3529]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
> Jan 16 18:41:32 mx01 MailScanner[3529]: Logging message F27B38A3D9.9123E to SQL
> Jan 16 18:41:33 mx01 postfix/smtp[4292]: 0B9DE8A3DA: to=<user at example.com>, relay=mail.example.com[x.x.x.x]:25, delay=7.3, delays=6.8/0.01/0.22/0.32, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 <C75A28E7F21EB141ABAEA4652B2C72653560B4C2 at exmbs0 1. domain.net> Queued mail for delivery)
> Jan 16 18:41:33 mx01 postfix/qmgr[18829]: 0B9DE8A3DA: removed

Incoming scanning should look like this also ... look for this in the maillog.

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mvh
Mikael Syska


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