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    Mailscanner + spamassassin + clamav package

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      andrew0401
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      Spoke too soon - yes I can see the page - but still unable to install the package - exact same fail message  "unable to download"

      Andrew

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        andrew0401
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        Tried to download the package manually - Clamd rejected access to the page?

        Andrew

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          @andrew0401:

          We run pfblocker on the firewall - disabled it and the page appears - I wonder which list your site is on?

          The host is in Brazil, maybe you applied deny both on top spammers list.

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            andrew0401
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            Tring to put an exception for your site above the pfblock list - otherwise I might have to be less harsh on what is blocked!

            The package now seems to be installed OK - time to start tuning!

            Andrew

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              @andrew0401:

              I might have to be less harsh on what is blocked!

              There are good guys on Brazil too  ;)

              You can change pfBlocker top spammers action to alias online and then block access only to port 25.

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                andrew0401
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                After a bit of playing it appears that everything is working - I say appears because whilst known good messages get passed and deliberate bad messages do not appear, I seem unable to get any report/log/message about what mailscanner is actually doing. What is it rejecting beyond my known, deliberately introduced spam.  Looked at a few guides to mailscanner and finished up confused.

                Is there a simple(!) "how to get activity reports out of mailscanner"

                Thanks

                Andrew

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                • marcellocM
                  marcelloc
                  last edited by

                  It's quite simple

                  If you have selected on general tab

                  • log destination = /var/log/maillog

                  • update frequency = every Xminutes

                  Simple go to diagnostics -> search mail

                  Select:

                  • log type = QUEUE

                  • iCTRL+CLICK Status info on Message fields

                  • select sqlite file(s) to search

                  • and press search

                  spam_search.png
                  spam_search.png_thumb

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                    andrew0401
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                    Thanks, but what I was after is why things are rejected and potentially review rejected/quarantined items for subsequent approval (or have I missed something in my setup?)

                    Andrew

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                    • marcellocM
                      marcelloc
                      last edited by

                      On this current version, you are able only to see amount of messages on quarantine.

                      status -> postfix queue

                      the mailscanner package use native sqlite2 databases while mailscanner use sqlite3 to store quarantine data.

                      There is a way to enable sqlite3 on mailscanner, but I'll need to rewrite a lot to update it to sqlite3 only.

                      Maybe next version I include a tab for quarantine.

                      Today I use only reject, attach or subject action for spam on my system.

                      If you really need this, you can make a donation to mailscanner package so I can write it for you.

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                        andrew0401
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                        Just found the following in the log

                        php: : The command '/usr/local/dcc/dcc_conf stop' returned exit code '126', the output was '/usr/local/dcc/dcc_conf: Permission denied'

                        Also seem to be having some problems with what should be spam identified by rules in postfix is actually being passed - maybe best in the morning rather than late on a sunday night!

                        Andrew

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                        • marcellocM
                          marcelloc
                          last edited by

                          Did you:

                          Inlcude /^Subject:/ WARN line in Acl Headers after all your Subject rules.
                          enabled thirdpart antispam, selected message hold mode and software?
                          enabled all default options(yes) on mailscanner gui?

                          Can you see mailscanner action with a tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep -i mailscanner

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                            andrew0401
                            last edited by

                            Had the WARN line as the first line in the ACL header - trying as last line

                            Mailscanner enables, queue set to auto and mailscanner+ spam+ virus selected.

                            Exactly which option in mailscanner gui are you referring to?

                            One discovery - it looks like most of the problems are related to mail retrieved from a pop3 mailbox by fetchmail.

                            Andrew

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                              marcelloc
                              last edited by

                              @andrew0401:

                              One discovery - it looks like most of the problems are related to mail retrieved from a pop3 mailbox by fetchmail.

                              Mailscanner works together with postfix, how fetchmail forward these messages to postfix daemon?

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                                andrew0401
                                last edited by

                                Fetchmail is running on another box (Ubuntu) and forwards to the pfsense box running the scanner.

                                Just had a complete freeze of the scanner and had to rebuild from scratch - the install hung at

                                PCRE-8.21-1.TBZ (Extracting) after I hit enter it continued.

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                                  andrew0401
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                                  Not sure that my theory of using another machine to run fetchmail is going to work.  It appears that the SMTP traffic (going direct to pfsense scanner) is being processed correctly, but POP3 traffic collected by the other machine using fetchmail and then forwarded to the scanner is not being scanned for spam - my guess is that because it is on the same network it assumes it is whitelisted?  Or am I more confused than usual?

                                  Andrew

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                                    ncsidaho
                                    last edited by

                                    @marcelloc:

                                    On this current version, you are able only to see amount of messages on quarantine.

                                    status -> postfix queue

                                    the mailscanner package use native sqlite2 databases while mailscanner use sqlite3 to store quarantine data.

                                    There is a way to enable sqlite3 on mailscanner, but I'll need to rewrite a lot to update it to sqlite3 only.

                                    Maybe next version I include a tab for quarantine.

                                    Today I use only reject, attach or subject action for spam on my system.

                                    If you really need this, you can make a donation to mailscanner package so I can write it for you.

                                    I would be interested in a quarantine tab with a release and whitelist function for valid messages that get caught in the filter.
                                    please PM me with what you feel an appropriate donation would be

                                    UPDATE: After speaking to Marcello over PM, he has agreed to work on adding a quarantine tab to the mailscanner. I have made a donation to this effort and encourage anyone else that is interested to please donate as well. I feel a the addition of the quarantine / white list function adds a lot of value and functionality. Right now I have many clients using hosted solutions for spam filtering but would much prefer to have the it on my pfsense installations

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                                      jamesc
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                                      Hi Marcello

                                      Do you have any updates on SASL authentication and if/when it may be included in this great package?

                                      I would love to migrate our existing SMTP solution over to this but the lack of authentication is the only thing stopping me.

                                      Cheers,

                                      James

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        @jamesc:

                                        Hi Marcello

                                        Do you have any updates on SASL authentication and if/when it may be included in this great package?

                                        I would love to migrate our existing SMTP solution over to this but the lack of authentication is the only thing stopping me.

                                        Cheers,

                                        James

                                        smtp auth is from postfix package, I've posted an answer there :)

                                        http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,40622.msg243900.html#msg243900

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                                          capitangiaco
                                          last edited by

                                          hi all

                                          I am trying the mailscanner-dev pkg and I am receiving this on the logs:

                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.83.5 starting…
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Reading configuration file /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Reading configuration file /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Could not read file /usr/local/share/MailScanner/reports//inline.spam.warning.txt
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Error in line 393, file "/usr/local/share/MailScanner/reports//inline.spam.warning.txt" for inlinespamwarning does not exist (or can not be read)
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Could not read file /usr/local/share/MailScanner/reports//languages.conf
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Error in line 187, file "/usr/local/share/MailScanner/reports//languages.conf" for languagestrings does not exist (or can not be read)
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Syntax error in line 143, value "" for allowiframetags is not one of allowed values "yes","disarm","no"
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Syntax error in line 144, value "" for allowformtags is not one of allowed values "yes","disarm","no"
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Syntax error in line 150, value "" for allowobjecttags is not one of allowed values "yes","disarm","no"
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Syntax error in line 145, value "" for allowscripttags is not one of allowed values "yes","disarm","no"
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Syntax error in line 146, value "" for allowwebbugtags is not one of allowed values "yes","disarm","no"
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Connected to Processing Attempts Database
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Found 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla postfix/postscreen[54168]: DNSBL rank 3 for [177.103.221.63]:2184
                                          Mar  7 15:42:43 firewalla MailScanner[14828]: Using locktype = flock

                                          Giacomo

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                                          • marcellocM
                                            marcelloc
                                            last edited by

                                            I tools like you need to select another language report.

                                            reports//languages.conf

                                            should be

                                            reports/some_language/languages.conf

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