[ale] Postfix + MailScanner (+ SpamAssassin + Clamav)

Nathan J. Underwood ale1 at cybertechcafe.net
Thu Oct 7 15:05:17 EDT 2004


Never mind, this was (believe it or not) an aliases issue.
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Nathan J. Underwood
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Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Ok, found amavis, have it installed, but I seem to be missing something. 
>  In going through the test (telnet to localhost:10024, etc.), amavis 
> answers, I'm able to create and send the message, but it bounces each 
> time.  This is the error:
> 
> <postfix at corp.domain.com>: maildir delivery failed: create
>     /var/spool/postfix/.mail/tmp/1097172084.4530_0.gandalf: Permission 
> Denied
> 
> I am using postfix / dovecot, and the clients will be MS WinXP Pro 
> (using roaming profiles, stored in the ~/.profile directory).  Their 
> maildir is set to be ~/.mail (i.e. everything will 'live' in /home). 
> Postfix (without amavisd-new) works fine, as does dovecot.  I'm going 
> through the docs now to try to find what is telling it to use 
> /var/spool/postfix/.mail/tmp for anything, but I've not been able to 
> yet.  Any ideas?
> 
> 
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> 
> Nathan J. Underwood
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> 
> Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>>
>>
>>> delivered without a problem.  I'm back to the MailScanner site now 
>>> trying to find what I've missed, but would welcome any gentle nudges 
>>> in the right direction from anyone out there that's already done it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't do that.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the author of MailScanner doesn't make it clear on his web
>> site that use of MailScanner with Postfix is unsupported by the Postfix
>> developers. MailScanner directly manipulates Postfix queue files in ways
>> that are unsafe instead of using the documented safe APIs, leading to 
>> lost
>> mail / duplicate mail.
>>
>> Use amavisd-new instead. <http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/>
>>
>> later,
>> chris
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