MailScanner 5.0.2 and Ubuntu server 16.04 first attempt

[Jerry Benton]

- Pretty sure you need to run “MailScanner —lint” as the root user …

- Do not the command from the /root directory. Change to /tmp




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Jerry Benton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Goupell <patrick at yoopermail.us>
Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Date: June 15, 2016 at 2:35:16 PM
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject:  MailScanner 5.0.2 and Ubuntu server 16.04 first attempt

> This is my first attempt with both ubuntu and mailscanner.
>
> Did a clean install of ubuntu server 16.04
>
> downloaded and ran the mailscanner-5.0.2 install.sh
>
> Did a basic configuration of MailScanner.
>
> Ran MailScanner --lint
>
> Got the following errors (permissions?). User is postfix and group is
> mtagroup as set by the install script and configuration settings. Do I
> need to do anything with apparmor?
>
> patrick at efa1:/etc/apparmor.d/local$ MailScanner --lint
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
> Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at
> /usr/sbin/ms-create-locks line 48.
> Error: Attempt to create locks in /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks
> failed!
>
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
> Read 501 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> Read 16128 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
> Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist
> Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
> Config: calling custom init function SQLBlacklist
>
> Checking version numbers...
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (5.0.2) is correct.
>
> Your envelope_sender_header in spamassassin.conf is correct.
> Cannot create temporary Work Dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/1343.
> Are the permissions and ownership of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> correct? at /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/MailScanner/WorkArea.pm line 147.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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