a bunch of email related problems

hello,

I am running DA under rh9.

I have installed MailScanner following the howto provided on this site and I have a few problems :
-some users still seem to recieve infected mails, with diverse kind of worms.

-the header sometimes contains this line :
X-behostings.be-MailScanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean, Found to be clean

where I wonder why I get three times the found to be clean.
and why do I sometimes only get the foud to be clean only one time

-I have a user that gets a lot of bounces from diverse mailscanners telling him that he is infected. how can I get the system to drop those mails ?


-sending an xls file as attachment to a mailing lists seems to send the mail into a blackhole

-SOLVED : in the logs I get a lot of frozen messages, what does it means, can I safely erase them

-SOLVED : I also have a lot of mails to postmaster, apache, .. @thenameofmymachine how can I change this to a real address

-If I run MailScanner, does it handles spam ? Or do I have to run spamassassin separately ?
Is it better to use rbls or spamassassin ?

Voilà, I know there is a lot of things here but I cannot solve them...

Hello,

Although I'm not farmiliar with Mailscanner myself, I can say that some extensions will be dropped due to the /etc/system_filter.exim file. This can be commented out by editing the /etc/exim.conf and putting a # in front of the system_filter line.

Frozen messages means that there was a problem while sending the message and will try again later. You can force the message to be sent now by runnin "exim -M <message-ID>". Then view /var/log/exim/mainlog to see if it failed again... if it did, the reason should be shown.

The only way to get the apache email is to add an alias to /etc/aliases for apache/postmaster and forward them to a real account.

John

netswitch said:

I also have a lot of mails to postmaster, apache, .. @thenameofmymachine how can I change this to a real address

Click to expand...

pico -w /etc/mail/aliases


Use Tab button to get spaces between the : and the email


Also, you will need spamassassin for spam and clam (or other software) for viruses.

Chris

Thanks for this, the probleme of the mails to apache and postmaster are solved ;-)

For the blocking of .xls files, it only happens when attached to a mailing lists, if it is a single email, itis ok, so I guess modifiying the system_filter.exim won'(t change anything. (and I have aldready checked this file and didn't foudn the xls extention in it. I ll chek again.)