Mailscanner does not scan mails

Fri Oct 8 13:44:25 IST 2010

yes, i think permissions are OK

fw-1 opt # ls -ls /var/spool/postfix/
total 20
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Oct  8 14:40 active
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Oct  8 13:41 bounce
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Apr  5  2006 corrupt
 0 drwx------ 18 postfix root      134 Apr 26  2006 defer
 0 drwx------ 18 postfix root      134 Apr 26  2006 deferred
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root       45 Oct  1 08:27 flush
12 drwx------  2 postfix root     8192 Oct  8 14:42 hold
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root       61 Oct  8 14:42 incoming
 0 drwx-wx---  2 postfix postdrop   25 Oct  8 14:07 maildrop
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root     4096 Sep  1  2008 pid
 4 drwx------  2 postfix root     4096 Oct  7 20:05 private
 0 drwx--x---  2 postfix postdrop   68 Oct  7 20:05 public
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root        6 Apr  5  2006 saved
 0 drwx------  2 postfix root       44 Oct  8 13:32 trace

fw-1 opt # ls -la /var/spool/MailScanner/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  6 postfix postfix   69 Mar  5  2009 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 root    root      98 Mar  5  2009 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 postfix postfix    6 May 11  2006 bayes
drwxr-xr-x 46 postfix postfix 4096 Oct  8 14:22 incoming
drwxr-xr-x 34 postfix postfix 4096 Oct  8 05:23 quarantine
drwx------  2 postfix postfix   58 Apr  7  2006 spamassassin

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Von:    Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch>
An:     MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Datum:  08.10.2010 14:37
Betreff:        Re: Mailscanner does not scan mails
Gesendet von:   mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info

did you check permsisions as per docs?
MailScanner setup may reset them after running

h2h
Alex

On 2010-10-08 14:24, LGi at b-w-computer.de wrote:
> I just ugraded to MailScanner-4.81.4-1
> 
> All seems fine, but it's just not scanning messages.
> The debug output says:
> 
>         14:10:29 Building a message batch to scan...
> 
> but nothing happens
> 
> ps ax shows:
> 
>         29532 pts/3    S+     0:38 MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 
> The Incoming Queue Dir is configured correctly:
> 
> Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
> 
> When I start the job with strace the Mailscanner processs seem to look 
> into the queue directory every 6 seconds:
> 
> [pid 29692] chdir("/var/spool/postfix/hold") = 0
> [pid 29692] open(".", 
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) 
> = 9
> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 120 entries */, 32768) = 3824
> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
> [pid 29692] close(9)                    = 0
> [pid 29692] umask(0177)                 = 077
> [pid 29692] umask(077)                  = 0177
> [pid 29692] time(NULL)                  = 1286540143
> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
> [pid 29692] rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> [pid 29692] nanosleep({6, 0}, {6, 0})   = 0
> [pid 29692] time(NULL)                  = 1286540149
> [pid 29692] chdir("/var/spool/postfix/hold") = 0
> [pid 29692] open(".", 
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) 
> = 9
> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 120 entries */, 32768) = 3824
> [pid 29692] getdents64(9, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
> [pid 29692] close(9)                    = 0
> [pid 29692] umask(0177)                 = 077
> [pid 29692] umask(077)                  = 0177
> [pid 29692] time(NULL)                  = 1286540149
> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
> [pid 29692] rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> [pid 29692] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> [pid 29692] nanosleep({6, 0},
> 
> 
> There are several new messages in the directory /var/spool/postfix/hold 
> but MailScanner does not pick them.
> 
> any idea how to get this to work?
> Previus Version MailScanner-4.52.2 is working fine.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> best regards
> 
> 
> Lars Gierling
> 
> 
> 
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