MailScanner Lint Error

Maarten mailinglists at feedmebits.nl
Tue Aug 11 07:15:18 UTC 2020


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On 2020-08-11 03:02, Paul Scott wrote:
> Oh, and the running OS is CentOS 6.  Sorry, I should have put that in
> the email.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Paul Scott
> Engineer, Eden USA, Incorporated
> 
> 866.501.3336 [1] | 951.505.6967 [2] | sales at edenusa.com
> 
> https://www.edenusa.com [3]
> 
> 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>:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> https://www.edenusa.com
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
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> [1] tel:866.501.3336
> [2] tel:951.505.6967
> [3] https://www.edenusa.com/


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