MailScanner process failing after spam found
Glenn Steen
glenn.steen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 18:09:40 IST 2011
Run the lint tests as the postfix user (sudo -i, then su - postfix -s
/bin/bash). What you describe sound a lot like a permissions issue (but
might be taint-related too), so you need test as the user MS runs as.
Cheers
--
-- Glenn
Den 24 okt 2011 14:33 skrev "Stephen Courtney" <scourtney at dataswift.co.uk>:
> I've set up a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.10 system with Postfix, ClamAV,
> SpamAssassin and MailScanner (the latter from the Baruwa repository at
> http://www.baruwa.org/download/) .
>
> Postfix is configured to relay messages through to our main email server
> (Microsoft Exchange 2010, though that's not relevant to my issue).
>
> If I disable SpamAssassin, messages are successfully scanned by MailScanner
> (using ClamAV for virus tests) and then relayed through or rejected as
> appropriate. With SpamAssassin enabled however, non-spam email gets
> delivered correctly, but any spam gets stuck in the 'hold' queue in Postfix,
> and I get a log with the following in /var/log/syslog:
>
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.84.3 starting...
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Reading configuration file
> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Reading configuration file
> /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/baruwa.conf
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Reading ruleset htmlsigs for
> keyword inlinehtmlsig
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Reading ruleset textsigs for
> keyword inlinetextsig
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Reading ruleset sigimgs for
> keyword attachimageinternalname
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Reading ruleset sigimgfiles
> for keyword attachimagename
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Read 867 hostnames from the
> phishing whitelist
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Read 4252 hostnames from the
> phishing blacklists
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Config: calling custom init
> function BaruwaLowScore
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Populating spam
> score settings
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: no spam score
> settings found using defaults
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Config: calling custom init
> function BaruwaShouldScan
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Starting scanning
> settings
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Read 2 settings
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Config: calling custom init
> function BaruwaBlacklist
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Starting blacklists
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Read 0 blacklist
> items
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Ip blocks
> blacklisted:
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Config: calling custom init
> function BaruwaSQL
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8129]: Baruwa: Starting SQL logger
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Config: calling custom init
> function BaruwaHighScore
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Populating high spam
> score settings
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: no high spam score
> settings found using defaults
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Config: calling custom init
> function BaruwaWhitelist
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Starting whitelists
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Read 1 whitelist
> items
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Baruwa: Ip blocks
> whitelisted:
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Using SpamAssassin results
> cache
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Connected to SpamAssassin
> cache database
> Oct 24 13:15:18 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Enabling SpamAssassin
> auto-whitelist functionality...
> Oct 24 13:15:19 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Connected to Processing
> Attempts Database
> Oct 24 13:15:19 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Found 1 messages in the
> Processing Attempts Database
> Oct 24 13:15:19 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Using locktype = flock
> Oct 24 13:20:56 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Making attempt 2 at
> processing message 535B3181EA0.A3B3A
> Oct 24 13:20:56 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> messages, 1473 bytes
> Oct 24 13:20:56 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Oct 24 13:20:59 mailgateway MailScanner[8128]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
> messages
> Oct 24 13:20:59 mailgateway MailScanner: Process did not exit cleanly,
> returned 255 with signal 0
>
> If I run MailScanner with debug enabled, it gets stuck after displaying
> 'Building a message batch to scan'.
>
> Both MailScanner --lint and Spamassassin --lint show no issues.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on what to check, I'd be grateful!
>
> Stephen
>
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