MailScanner Lint Error

Mon Aug 10 23:29:18 UTC 2020

I think my replies are falling on deaf ears... if someone could help 
Paul with sendmail & mailscanner, much appreciated.  I don't think he is 
getting my replies to the list, and direct replies are bouncing.

On 8/10/20 4:06 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
>
> Hello Louis,
>
> Thank you very much for your reply.  This is turning out to be a very 
> difficult issue to fix.
>
> I went in to the /etc/MailScanner/spamassassin.conf file, and found 
> this option, and uncommented it:
>
> # =============== RBSL related items ===============
>
> # By default, SpamAssassin will run RBL checks.  If your ISP already
>
> # does this, stop RBL checks in SpamAssassin by un-commenting the
>
> # following line
>
> skip_rbl_checks 1
>
> I then ran the sa-update again, and then MailScanner –lint again, and 
> now it’s clean (see below—looking good).
>
> I also ran the spamassassin -D –lint command, and it produced a 
> massive amount of output, which seemed to show that all was good.
>
> So, I think spamassassin is okay, and is working fine.
>
> Therefore, the only program still remaining is that MailScanner itself 
> is not doing any processing of any incoming messages.
>
> That is, nothing at all is appearing in the maillog to indicate that 
> MailScanner is processing messages.
>
> Any ideas what may be wrong?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> [root at fs9 MailScanner]# MailScanner --lint
>
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>
> Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
>
> Read 1500 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>
> Read 7949 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
>
> Checking version numbers...
>
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (5.3.3) is correct.
>
> 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
>
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>
> Auto: Found virus scanners: clamd
>
> Using locktype = flock
>
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = auto"
>
> Found these virus scanners installed: clamd
>
> ===========================================================================
>
> Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com)
>
> Other Checks: Found 1 problems
>
> Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>
> Clamd::INFECTED:: Win.Test.EICAR_HDB-1 :: ./1/eicar.com
>
> Virus Scanning: Clamd found 2 infections
>
> Infected message 1 came from 10.1.1.1
>
> Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
>
> ===========================================================================
>
> Virus Scanner test reports:
>
> Clamd said "eicar.com was infected: Win.Test.EICAR_HDB-1"
>
> If any of your virus scanners (clamd)
>
> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
>
> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its 
> virus.scanners.conf.
>
> photo
>
> 	
> 	
>
> *Paul Scott*
> Engineer, Eden USA, Incorporated
>
> 866.501.3336 <tel:866.501.3336> |951.505.6967 <tel:951.505.6967> 
> |sales at edenusa.com <mailto:sales at edenusa.com>
>
> https://www.edenusa.com <https://www.edenusa.com/>
>
>
> *From:* MailScanner 
> <mailscanner-bounces+sales=edenusa.com at lists.mailscanner.info> *On 
> Behalf Of *L.P.H. van Belle via MailScanner
> *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2020 12:54 PM
> *To:* mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> *Cc:* L.P.H. van Belle <belle at bazuin.nl>
> *Subject:* Re: MailScanner Lint Error
>
> I don't know your running os, but on debian, running su-update is done 
> as the user running the service.
>
> i suspect wrong rights somewhere.
>
> i had it myself, also due running sa-update as root.
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Greetz,
>
> Louis
>
> Op 10 aug. 2020 21:08 schreef Paul Scott <sales at edenusa.com 
> <mailto:sales at edenusa.com>>:
>
>
>
>     Hello MailScanner folks and friends:
>
>
>
>     I continue to hammer away at trying to get MailScanner working
>     again.  I managed to get the install to run without error, but I
>     still do not see MailScanner actively processing any SPAM at all
>     in the “maillog” log file.  It only shows its startup messages,
>     and that’s it.  The process ID remains running, but MailScanner is
>     effectively dead (doesn’t do any work).  I also did successfully
>     use CPAN to upgrade Spam Assassin to the very latest version, just
>     now.
>
>
>
>     [root at fs9 log]# spamassassin -V
>
>     SpamAssassin version 3.4.4
>
>       running on Perl version 5.10.1
>
>     [root at fs9 log]#
>
>
>
>
>
>     After that, I tried MailScanner –lint, and had some issues, which
>     I fixed, until I now have this result:
>
>
>
>     [root at fs9 ~]# MailScanner --lint
>
>     Trying to setlogsock(unix)
>
>
>
>     Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>
>     Reading configuration file /etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
>
>     Read 1500 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
>
>     Read 7949 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
>
>
>
>     Checking version numbers...
>
>     Version number in MailScanner.conf (5.3.3) is correct.
>
>
>
>     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
>
>     config: registryboundaries: no tlds defined, need to run sa-update
>
>     SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>
>     Auto: Found virus scanners: clamd
>
>     Using locktype = flock
>
>     MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = auto"
>
>     Found these virus scanners installed: clamd
>
>     ===========================================================================
>
>
>     Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (1 eicar.com)
>
>     Other Checks: Found 1 problems
>
>     Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>
>     Clamd::INFECTED:: Win.Test.EICAR_HDB-1 :: ./1/eicar.com
>
>     Virus Scanning: Clamd found 2 infections
>
>     Infected message 1 came from 10.1.1.1
>
>     Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
>
>     ===========================================================================
>
>
>     Virus Scanner test reports:
>
>     Clamd said "eicar.com was infected: Win.Test.EICAR_HDB-1"
>
>
>
>     If any of your virus scanners (clamd)
>
>     are not listed there, you should check that they are installed
>     correctly
>
>     and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its
>     virus.scanners.conf.
>
>
>
>     I don’t know what this error means, or how to fix it—I did run
>     “sa-update”, and it did not fix it:
>
>     config: registryboundaries: no tlds defined, need to run sa-update
>
>
>
>     Can you please let me know how to fix this?
>
>
>
>
>
>     Also, of interest, I read in the spamassassin.conf that there is a
>     Processing.db, that is in the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>     folder, and to clear it, you delete it, and it should be recreated
>     when MailScanner is restarted, it will be recreated.  I tried
>     that, but it did NOT get recreated, not sure why.  Any ideas?
>
>
>
>     The bottom line here is that MailScanner is not doing what it
>     should be doing, and that is scanning incoming mail.  I am having
>     a great deal of trouble figure this out.  Please help.  Thank you
>     very much!
>
>
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
>     Paul Scott
>     Engineer, Eden USA, Incorporated
>
>     866.501.3336 | 951.505.6967 | sales at edenusa.com
>     <mailto:sales at edenusa.com>
>
>     https://www.edenusa.com
>
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