On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:52 , Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:

>On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:03, McKeever Chris wrote:
>> I am running qmail-scanner with clamav (0.65)
>> I have one machine that acts as a gateway, and then sends it to the main email 
>> server.
>> The gateway is the one with qmailscanner and clamav, the email servers post-MTA 
>> (@mail) has a plugin for clamav which scans the file 
before 
>> databsing it.
>> 
>> I have noticed since 11/4/03 that there are about 2-4 emails per day that get by 
>> the gateway and picked up by the @mail-clamav scan
>> any suggestions? They are typically Exploit.IFrame.Gen and 1 W32/Yaha.g.dam
>> 
>
>Are you running clamscan or clamdscan? (i.e. the daemon version). I bet
>it's the latter.
>
>Do you have the qmail-queue.log debug file that contains evidence of
>such a "missed" message? If not, turn it on and don't stop logging until
>you catch another such occurance. Then you can search that file looking
>for the particular message that "slipped through". At that stage you may
>see why it failed. I'd suspect a bug whereby clamd failed to scan the
>message for some transitory reason, but still exited with a zero error
>status - so Qmail-Scanner can only assume it's OK and carried on.
>
>Let us know what you find.
>

OK - that last email was a panic attack - I got qmail-scanner 1.20 running  the 
/var/spool/qmailscan/tmp file got reset to the wrong 
permissions.  so now off to monitor some log files..maybe the upgrade will do the trick

thanks!



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>
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