Strange MailScanner --lint error

[Jerry Benton]

Honestly, I have no idea why it was commented out by default. I will remove it from the source unless someone else enlightens me as to do otherwise. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Aug 14, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Bryan Laurila <blaurila at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jerry! 
> 
> That got rid of the error but can you shed some light into why that line was commented out (assuming by default) and what uncommenting it will do to the functionality of MailScanner?
> 
> Bryan
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> From: Jerry Benton <jerry.benton at mailborder.com>
> To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> 
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Strange MailScanner --lint error
> 
> Uncomment line 313 of ConfigDefs.pl
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com/>
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>> On Aug 14, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Bryan Laurila <blaurila at sbcglobal.net <mailto:blaurila at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
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>> I am currently running MailScanner version 4.84.6 and in checking log files for something else I discovered the following in /var/log/mail today.  Not sure how long this has been happening but I’d venture to guess it has been years…
>>  
>> 2015-08-12T10:45:42.679370-05:00 DCMXRLY1 MailScanner[19393]: Syntax error(s) in configuration file:
>> 2015-08-12T10:45:42.679398-05:00 DCMXRLY1 MailScanner[19393]: Unrecognised keyword "spamassassinprefsfile" at line 3129
>> 2015-08-12T10:45:42.679411-05:00 DCMXRLY1 MailScanner[19393]: Warning: syntax errors in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.
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>> In running a MailScanner –lint I see the following:
>>  
>> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>>  
>> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
>> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/web_bug
>> Syntax error(s) in configuration file: at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 2213.
>> Unrecognised keyword "spamassassinprefsfile" at line 3129 at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 2216.
>> Warning: syntax errors in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf. at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 2221.
>> Read 463 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>> Read 11928 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
>>  
>> Checking version numbers...
>> Version number in MailScanner.conf (4.84.6) is correct.
>>  
>> Your envelope_sender_header in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is correct.
>> MailScanner setting GID to  (51)
>> MailScanner setting UID to  (51)
>>  
>> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
>> Using SpamAssassin results cache
>> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
>> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>> I have found clamav scanners installed, and will use them all by default.
>> Connected to Processing Attempts Database
>> Created Processing Attempts Database successfully
>> There are 368 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
>> Using locktype = posix
>> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = auto"
>> Found these virus scanners installed: clamav
>> ===========================================================================
>> Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com <http://eicar.com/>)
>> Other Checks: Found 1 problems
>> Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>> 1.message: Eicar-Test-Signature-1 FOUND
>>  
>> ./1/eicar.com <http://eicar.com/>: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND
>>  
>> Virus Scanning: ClamAV found 2 infections
>> Infected message 1 came from 10.1.1.1
>> Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
>> ===========================================================================
>> Virus Scanner test reports:
>> ClamAV said "eicar.com <http://eicar.com/> contains Eicar-Test-Signature"
>>  
>> If any of your virus scanners (clamav)
>> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
>> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its virus.scanners.conf.
>>  
>>  
>> In looking at /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf I have the following on line 3129:
>>  
>> SpamAssassin Prefs File = /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>> 
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>>  
>> In searching for this error regarding the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, all I find is old stuff from like 2006-2009.  Some results say to just comment out the line and others say to run upgrade_Mail_Scanner_conf.
>>  
>> What’s going on here and how do I fix it?  All help is greatly appreciated.
>>  
>> Thanks,
>>     Bryan
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