Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner

Tue Oct 11 18:25:01 UTC 2016

Paul, 

Linux mail.edenhosting.net 2.6.18-412. el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 5 22:22:21 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 

This is CentOS 5.x. Support for CentOS 5.x will end March 2017. Moving to a newer CentOS is advisable. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ 

If I were you, I would do a clean install with Centos 6 with MailScanner with postfix. Moving to CentOS 7 is a big leap from CentOS 5. !!!! 

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Looking at the output of MailScanner --lint you have multiple problems: 

Most important is: 

Checking version numbers... 

Version installed (5.0.3) does not match version stated in 

MailScanner.conf file (4.84.5), you may want to run ms-upgrade-conf 

to ensure your MailScanner.conf file contains all the latest settings. 

You are running a old config file, with a newer MailScanner. You need to update it using the ms-upgrade-conf command. 

And keep solving problems until MailScanner --lint does not give any error messages 

Met vriendelijke groet, Best regards, 

Thom van der Boon 
E-Mail: thom at vdb.nl 

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Thom.H. van der Boon b.v. 
Transito 4 
6909 DA Babberich 
Tel.: +31 (0)88 4272727 
Fax: +31 (0)88 4272789 
Home Page: http://www.vdb.nl/ 

Van: "Paul Scott" <sales at edenusa.com> 
Aan: "MailScanner Discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> 
Verzonden: Dinsdag 11 oktober 2016 19:48:07 
Onderwerp: RE: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner 

Hello Thom, 

In answer to your questions, I have the following: 

Linux mail.edenhosting.net 2.6.18-412.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 5 22:22:21 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 

The MTA is Sendmail 

Here is the output of MailScanner –lint: 

[root at mail ~]# MailScanner --lint 

Trying to setlogsock(unix) 

Could not read Custom Functions directory /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions at /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/MailScanner/Config.pm line 735 

Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 

Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/MyMailScannerConfig.conf 

Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README 

Read 501 hostnames from the phishing whitelist 

Read 19129 hostnames from the phishing blacklists 

Config: calling custom init function SQLBlacklist 

Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging 

Config: calling custom init function SQLWhitelist 

Checking version numbers... 

Version installed (5.0.3) does not match version stated in 

MailScanner.conf file (4.84.5), you may want to run ms-upgrade-conf 

to ensure your MailScanner.conf file contains all the latest settings. 

Your envelope_sender_header in spamassassin.conf is correct. 

Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)... 

Using SpamAssassin results cache 

Connected to SpamAssassin cache database 

dcc: dccifd -> check skipped: dcc: failed to connect to a socket /var/dcc/dccifd: Connection refused 

SpamAssassin reported no errors. 

Connected to Processing Attempts Database 

Created Processing Attempts Database successfully 

There are 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database 

Using locktype = flock 

MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamav avg" 

mktemp: invalid option -- - 

Usage: mktemp [-V] | [-dqtu] [-p prefix] [template] 

Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule 

=========================================================================== 

Virus and Content Scanning: Starting 

mktemp: invalid option -- - 

Usage: mktemp [-V] | [-dqtu] [-p prefix] [template] 

ERROR: Option --tempdir requires a non-empty string argument 

ERROR: Can't parse command line options 

=========================================================================== 

If any of your virus scanners (clamavmodule) 

are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly 

and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its virus.scanners.conf. 

Config: calling custom end function SQLBlacklist 

Config: calling custom end function MailWatchLogging 

Config: calling custom end function SQLWhitelist 

[root at mail ~]# 

And here are some of the errors that I am getting: 

[root at mail MailScanner]# service mailscanner restart 

Restarting MailScanner ... 

Could not read Custom Functions directory /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions at /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/MailScanner/Config.pm line 735 

Oct 11 10:13:57 mail MailScanner[24482]: MailScanner Email Processor version 5.0.3 starting... 

Oct 11 10:13:57 mail MailScanner[24482]: Could not read Custom Functions directory /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions 

Oct 11 10:13:57 mail MailScanner[24482]: Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much! 

Paul Scott 

From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+sales=edenusa.com at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Thom van der Boon 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 12:44 AM 
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info 
Subject: Re: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner 

Hi Paul, 

Wat CentOS version are you using? 
What MTA are you using? 

What is the output of MailScanner --lint ? 

I upgraded from 4.8.5 to 5.0.3 and after a initial hickup everything is running smoothly now. I did a clean install on a new server. So: My old mailscanner was on CentOS 5; created a new virtual machine with CentOS 6. Did a clean install and copied all the extra configuration files to the new server 

Met vriendelijke groet, Best regards, 

Thom van der Boon 
E-Mail: thom at vdb.nl 

===== 

Thom.H. van der Boon b.v. 
Transito 4 

6909 DA Babberich 
Tel.: +31 (0)88 4272727 
Fax: +31 (0)88 4272789 
Home Page: http://www.vdb.nl/ 

Van: "Paul Scott" < sales at edenusa.com > 
Aan: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info 
Verzonden: Dinsdag 11 oktober 2016 06:36:57 
Onderwerp: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner 

An upgrade from 4.85 to 5.0.3 caused a great deal of errors during the install, on my CentOS server. After the install, all of the REPORTS files were missing from the associated directory. Thank goodness I had made a full backup of the original MailScanner files, and was able to put all of those files back again. However, a great deal of spam is now getting through, and I am afraid that most of the settings in the mailscanner.conf file are somehow not working. For example, the ”required_hits” rule no longer seems to work. Also the custom files are no longer readable by mailscanner, in particular, the “Config.pm” file that is used by MailWatch. Also, MailWatch is no longer working at all. 

Also, I am receiving the following error to the root user, every few minutes: 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:50:02 -0800 

From: Cron Daemon < root at mail.edenhosting.net > 

To: root at mail.edenhosting.net 

Subject: Cron <root at mail> /usr/local/bin/mailq.php 

Cannot find configuration value: include in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf 

Any ideas about what happened and what I should do to get back on track? I have been using MailScanner for more than 10+ years, and EVERY upgrade worked like a charm. This is the first time that an upgrade has failed so badly. Any help is greatly appreciated! 

Sincerely, 

Paul Scott 

Sales Engineer, Eden USA 

Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles 

Phone: 866.501.3336 

Fax: 866.502.3336 

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/edenusainc 

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