MailScanner won't run ...

[Martin Hepworth]

Make sure the debug mode is run as su postfix first


Martin


On Saturday, 9 March 2013, Joolee wrote:

> Stupid question maybe but are you sure Mailscanner is running and has the
> right privilleges and did you check the mail.log?
> Have you read and tried the suggestions from
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:test_troubleshoot:mailscanner?
>
> You should run the lint and debug checks as the user you configured in the
> Mailscanner conf and try it as root user just to be sure of permissions
>
> On 9 March 2013 21:31, Michael Grimm <trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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>

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Martin Hepworth, CISSP
Oxford, UK
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