MailScanner won't run ...

[Mikael Syska]

Hi,

Have you changed where MailScanner looks for messages (change to
postfix, path, etc. in the MailScanner.conf)? This seems to be the
only thing you don't mention anything about.

Also running on FreeBSD here ... I havent got any problems. However
... I don't run mine in a jail, that seems to be the only diff.

mvh

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Michael Grimm <trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm absolutely new regarding MailScanner, and I would like to migrate from amavisd-new, but:
>
> This is my test mail server running in a FreeBSD jail:
>         FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE
>         postfix 2.9.5
>         clamav 0.97.6
>         spamassassin 3.3.2
>         perl 5.14.2
>
> Following http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html I did modify MailScanner.conf as follows:
>         Run As User = postfix
>         Run As Group = postfix
>         Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/hold
>         Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/postfix/incoming
>         MTA = postfix
>
> plus (due to clamav):
>         Incoming Work User =
>         Incoming Work Group = clamav
>         Incoming Work Permissions = 0640
>
> and:
>         SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
>
> I did create the following directories:
>         drwxrwxr-x    5 postfix          postfix        var/spool/MailScanner
>         drwxr-xr-x    2 postfix          postfix        /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
>         drwxr-xr-x    2 postfix          postfix        /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>         drwxr-xr-x    4 postfix          clamav         /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>         drwx------    2 postfix          postfix        /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
>         drwxr-x---    2 postfix          postfix        /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks
>
> "MailScanner --lint" and "spamassassin --lint" do run to completion without any complaints.
>
> *BUT*: Whenever I do inject mail messages, they will be put into postfix' hold queue (as intended by postfix' header_checks) for ever, but MailScanner won't do *anything*, no single syslog entry, nothing, absolutely nothing :-( I would have expected that there were some complaints in syslog, but there's nothing! And, I did try a lot of different variations of what should be configured (according help text in MailScanner.conf and google searching).
>
> MailScanner --debug isn't helpful, either. Nothing happens, nothing.
> MailScanner -h tells me that I do have all modules installed.
>
> I never ever experienced something comparable before: no error messages in syslog or wherever that would tell me about my mistakes :-(
>
> Thus: Anybody here that could teach me what to test next?
>
> Thanks and with kind regards,
> Michael
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