Mailscanner does not scan mails

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 18:23:34 IST 2010


Worth using the automatic tool for this u may have missed a setting

On Friday, October 8, 2010,  <LGi at b-w-computer.de> wrote:
> I updated the new MailScanner.conf manually with the settings from the old
> one.
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> Von:    Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com>
> An:     MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Datum:  08.10.2010 17:13
> Betreff:        Re: Mailscanner does not scan mails
> Gesendet von:   mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
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>  how did you upgrade - jump from 4.55 to 4.81 is a big one...did you check
> all the settings are still correct in the merges MailScanner.conf?
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> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
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> On 8 October 2010 13:24, <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.
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> best regards
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>
> Lars Gierling
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