CentOS 6 MailScanner & Postfix issues

Sun Oct 2 16:43:09 IST 2011

I used the instructions here:

http://www.linuxmail.info/mailscanner-postfix-clamav-spamassassin-howto-centos-5/

Just for mailscanner.  The steps are not out of line from the steps on the mailscanner wiki.

> what instructions did you to setup postfix for maiLScanner??
>
> the one on the mailScanner wiki or somewhere else?
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
>
>
> On 2 October 2011 15:31, <bradley at stygianresearch.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> begin postconf -n output:
>> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/list.aliases
>> command_directory = /usr/sbin
>> config_directory = /etc/postfix
>> daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
>> data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
>> debug_peer_level = 2
>> header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
>> home_mailbox = Maildir/
>> html_directory = no
>> inet_interfaces = all
>> inet_protocols = all
>> mail_owner = postfix
>> mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
>> manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
>> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
>> stygianresearch.com
>> mydomain = stygianresearch.com
>> myhostname = testimage.stygianresearch.com
>> mynetworks = 10.69.69.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
>> newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
>> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
>> readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES
>> relay_domains = $mydestination
>> relayhost = [internalmail.stygianresearch.com]
>> sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/samples
>> sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
>> setgid_group = postdrop
>> smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining,   permit
>> smtpd_delay_reject = yes
>> smtpd_helo_required = yes
>> smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,   warn_if_reject,
>> reject_non_fqdn_hostname,
>> reject_invalid_hostname,   permit
>> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender,
>> reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
>> reject_unknown_sender_domain,   reject_unknown_recipient_domain,
>> permit_sasl_authenticated,
>> permit_mynetworks,   reject_invalid_hostname,   reject_non_fqdn_hostname,
>> reject_unauth_destination,   check_policy_service unix:postgrey/socket,
>> check_recipient_access
>>         hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_access,   check_helo_access
>> hash:/etc/postfix/helo_access,   check_sender_access
>>  hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access,
>> check_client_access            hash:/etc/postfix/client_checks,   permit
>> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
>> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
>> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
>> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
>> end postconf -n output
>>
>> What is confusing to me email sent locally works through MailScanner.
>>
>>
>> > Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>> >
>> > Says it was delivered. Let's see your postconf -n output.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jeremy McSpadden
>> >
>> > On Oct 2, 2011, at 8:55 AM, "bradley at stygianresearch.com" <
>> bradley at stygianresearch.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Good morning.
>> >>
>> >> I'm setting up mailscanner/postfix on a centos 6 server that I'm
>> building to replace a CentOS
>> >> 5.7
>> >> server.
>> >>
>> >> For Email that send to the server externally (different host) is lost.
>>  Postfix receives it,
>> >> mailscanner scans it, and then nothing.  Here are the messages in
>> syslog:
>> >>
>> >> Oct  2 09:45:55 testimage postfix/smtpd[6740]: connect from
>> >> aquilonia.stygianresearch.com[10.69.69.161]
>> >> Oct  2 09:45:55 testimage postfix/smtpd[6740]: CDD9412C7:
>> >> client=aquilonia.stygianresearch.com[10.69.69.161]
>> >> Oct  2 09:45:55 testimage postfix/cleanup[6744]: CDD9412C7: hold: header
>> Received: from
>> >> aquilonia.stygianresearch.com (aquilonia.stygianresearch.com[10.69.69.161])??by
>> >> testimage.stygianresearch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD9412C7??for
>> >> <bradley at testimage.stygianresearch. from aquilonia.stygianresearch.com
>> [10.69.69.161];
>> >> from=<bradley at stygianresearch.com> to=<
>> bradley at testimage.stygianresearch.com> proto=ESMTP
>> >> helo=<aquilonia.stygianresearch.com>
>> >> Oct  2 09:45:55 testimage postfix/cleanup[6744]: CDD9412C7:
>> >> message-id=<20111002134554.7FF7627806C at aquilonia.stygianresearch.com>
>> >> Oct  2 09:45:56 testimage postfix/smtpd[6740]: disconnect from
>> >> aquilonia.stygianresearch.com[10.69.69.161]
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:37 testimage MailScanner[6624]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>> messages, 1394 bytes
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:37 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> Starting
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:37 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Virus Scanning completed at
>> 6542 bytes per second
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:37 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Spam Checks: Starting
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:37 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Message CDD9412C7.AA468
>> from 10.69.69.161
>> >> (bradley at stygianresearch.com) is whitelisted
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Spam Checks completed at
>> 136 bytes per second
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Virus Processing completed
>> at 357431 bytes per
>> >> second
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Deleted 1 messages from
>> processing-database
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Batch completed at 125
>> bytes per second (1394 /
>> >> 11)
>> >> Oct  2 09:46:48 testimage MailScanner[6624]: Batch (1 message) processed
>> in 11.07 seconds
>> >>
>> >> Thats it.  Postfix doesn't get to ever see the scanned email and its
>> lost.
>> >>
>> >> Now, if I send Email to the server internally (same host) mail gets
>> delivered.  Postfix recives
>> >> it, mailscanner scans it, and then postfix delivers it:
>> >>
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:10 testimage postfix/pickup[6603]: 9613E12C8: uid=2000
>> from=<bradley>
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:10 testimage postfix/cleanup[6718]: 9613E12C8: hold: header
>> Received: by
>> >> testimage.stygianresearch.com (Postfix, from userid 2000)??id
>> 9613E12C8; Sun,  2 Oct 2011
>> >> 09:43:10
>> >> -0400 (EDT) from local; from=<bradley at testimage.stygianresearch.com>
>> >> to=<bradley at testimage.stygianresearch.com>
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:10 testimage postfix/cleanup[6718]: 9613E12C8:
>> >> message-id=<20111002134310.9613E12C8 at testimage.stygianresearch.com>
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:32 testimage MailScanner[6619]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>> messages, 753 bytes
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:32 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> Starting
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:33 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Virus Scanning completed at
>> 1984 bytes per second
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:33 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Spam Checks: Starting
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Spam Checks completed at 76
>> bytes per second
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Requeue: 9613E12C8.A7360 to
>> 6E1CC12CB
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage postfix/qmgr[6604]: 6E1CC12CB:
>> >> from=<bradley at testimage.stygianresearch.com>, size=481, nrcpt=1 (queue
>> active)
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Virus Processing completed
>> at 84816 bytes per
>> >> second
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Deleted 1 messages from
>> processing-database
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Batch completed at 72 bytes
>> per second (753 / 10)
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:42 testimage MailScanner[6619]: Batch (1 message) processed
>> in 10.33 seconds
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:43 testimage postfix/local[6728]: 6E1CC12CB: to=<
>> bradley at stygianresearch.com>,
>> >> orig_to=<bradley at testimage.stygianresearch.com>, relay=local, delay=33,
>> delays=32/0.21/0/0.05,
>> >> dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
>> >> Oct  2 09:43:43 testimage postfix/qmgr[6604]: 6E1CC12CB: removed
>> >>
>> >> I'm currently running selinux in permission mode to make sure selinux
>> isn't causing any issues.
>> >> If MailScanner is stopped and just postfix is running, mail from both an
>> external and localhost
>> >> are delivered fine.
>> >>
>> >> Its just that when MailScanner is running, mail from an external server
>> just disappears.
>> >>
>> >> Does anybody have any suggestions or point me in a direction to go to?
>>  I've been using
>> >> MailScanner for years on a centos57 box without any issues like this.  I
>> even switched from
>> >> sendmail to postfix on centos 5.x without an issue like this.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance for help.
>> >>
>> >> Brad
>> >> --
>> >> Bradley Leonard
>> >> EMail:  bradley at stygianresearch.com
>> >>
>> >> Rob   - "The hills are alive with the..the..sound of monkeys?"
>> >> Bucky - "It's in the key of delicious."
>> >>
>> >> Life is simple. Humans make it complicated.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>> >>
>> >> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>> >>
>> >> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > This message has been scanned for viruses and
>> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>> > believed to be clean.
>> >
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>> > http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>> >
>> > Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>> >
>> > Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>> >
>>
>>
>> Brad
>> --
>> Bradley Leonard
>> EMail:  bradley at stygianresearch.com
>>
>> Rob   - "The hills are alive with the..the..sound of monkeys?"
>> Bucky - "It's in the key of delicious."
>>
>> Life is simple. Humans make it complicated.
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>>
>
> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
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>
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>

Brad
--
Bradley Leonard
EMail:  bradley at stygianresearch.com

Rob   - "The hills are alive with the..the..sound of monkeys?"
Bucky - "It's in the key of delicious."

Life is simple. Humans make it complicated.