Problems with MailScanner and SELinux compatibility

Mark L. Wise mark at alpha2.com
Thu Jun 9 16:53:24 IST 2011


Sorry if this is a second post...  I am still debugging my new mail 
server and I did not see the first post come back to me from the list...

I have just built a new box based on Fedora Core 15 (2.6.38.7-30).  I am 
going to use this box as a mail server.  I am using sendmail (8.14.4), 
spamassassin (3.3.2-r929478), clamav (0.97), dovecot (2.0.13) and 
MailScanner (4.83.5).

Everything appears to be configured well and working, except when I turn 
on MailScanner I get errors in the maillog file that indicate a problem 
writing (apparently temporary) files.

After a bit of research, it appears that this may be a conflict between 
MailScanner and SELinux.

Does anyone have a SELinux policy or know of a way to fix this issue?  I 
really would like to have SELinux enforcing AND MailScanner checking my 
mail.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Mark

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