Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner

[Paul Scott]

Actually, not sure what this means ("Good.  Throw it out and start over.")   Care to explain?

And insofar as your "do more research and preparation before upgrading", I did exactly that, and nowhere was there any great deal of information available which would prepare anybody for what is actually happening to them.  How would you suggest preparing for this?  And just because someone decides to bump something up from 4.85 to 5.x.x, is that an excuse for breaking so much of it?  Not too much in change logs alluding to the issues which have been happening to a lot of us out here. 

In conclusion, I am not trying to make excuses for myself, nor should anyone else.  I am VERY THANKFUL for all of the assistance I received from everybody on this forum.  Without you guys, I would have probably been fired from my job. 

THANK YOU!
Paul Scott
https://www.edenusa.com

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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:03 PM
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Subject: RE: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner

Good.  Throw it out and start over.

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On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:19 PM
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Subject: Re: Upgrade Wrecks MailScanner

On 10/13/2016 01:35 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> 
> Auto: Found virus scanners: clamavmodule LibClamAV Warning: 
> **************************************************
> LibClamAV Warning: ***  The virus database is older than 7 days!  ***
> LibClamAV Warning: ***   Please update it as soon as possible.    ***
> LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
> LibClamAV Warning:
***********************************************************
> LibClamAV Warning: ***  This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated.
***
> LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read 
> http://www.clamav.net/support/faq *** LibClamAV Warning: 
> ***********************************************************


Try using yum or whatever to install/update clamav, clamd and freshclam.
Also, running clamd is much preferred to the clamav module. If clamd is
running, Virus Scanners = auto will use it.


> 4. And every now and again, I get these kind of error messages in the
maillog:
> Oct 13 13:07:44 mail MailScanner[4773]: Could not open file 
> >/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/4773/u9DK7gOS005688.header: No such 
> file or directory Oct 13 13:07:44 mail MailScanner[4773]: Cannot 
> create + lock headers file 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/4773/u9DK7gOS005688.header



What is the owner and group of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/, and what
user and group are the MailScanner processes running as?


> I noticed that there are a few other folks having the same or similar
issues as I ran into using the install.sh script.  I feel that this is going
to become a large support issue, and I feel badly for all of us out here in
the world that are running into this problem.


I'm sorry for the difficulty that you and others have experienced in
upgrading from Mailscanner 4.x.x to 5.x.x. I'm sure there's much room for
improvement in the scripts and documentation, but please note that this is
not a micro or minor point release upgrade. It is a major version jump. As
such you should expect that things will change and do more research and
preparation before actually upgrading.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan


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