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      andrew0401
      last edited by

      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
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        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
          last edited by

          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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              • marcellocM
                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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                                capitangiaco
                                last edited by

                                thanks now it works!
                                compliments for the great job!!!!

                                (I needed to set 'no' and again 'disarm' "Removing/Logging dangerous or potentially offensive content" directives to make it works).

                                Giacomo

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                                  capitangiaco
                                  last edited by

                                  I tried to re-install the system (I am using I386) from scratch, and I wrote some notes that may be of help:

                                  sa-spamd and clamd start
                                  manually added:
                                  clamav_clamd_enable="YES"
                                  clamav_freshclam_enable="YES"
                                  spamd_enable="YES"
                                  to /etc/rc.conf/local

                                  Deliver from postfix to mailscanner, manually added:
                                  header_checks = regexp:/usr/local/etc/postfix/header_checks to /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf
                                  created  the /usr/local/etc/postfix/header_checks with '/^Received:/ HOLD' inside
                                  restarted with postfix reload
                                  I didn't find the options that make this work from the web configurator <– help please! :)

                                  Cannot lock /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks/clamavBusy.lock, No such file or directory
                                  chown -R postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/Locks.

                                  This is a very usefull pkg, thanks to Marcello for the great work!

                                  Giacomo

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

                                    I use all these options with no file hacking.

                                    Did you installed postfix pfsense package to work with mailscanner?

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                                      capitangiaco
                                      last edited by

                                      @marcelloc:

                                      I use all these options with no file hacking.

                                      Did you installed postfix pfsense package to work with mailscanner?

                                      Installed first postfix forward and then mailscanner-dev

                                      Giacomo

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        header checks are on services -> postfix forwarder -> access lists

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                                          ncsidaho
                                          last edited by

                                          Hello all
                                          I have installed Posfix Forwarder and the mailscanner + spamassassin + clamav package. Postfix is working wonderfully but I think I must have somthing wrong in my configuration with mailscanner. In Postfix I have the 3rd party option enabled / The mode is set to auto. I have the mailscanner package enabled as well as the CLAMAV and spam assassin options enabled. But when I run the GFI Security Test EVERYTHING get through.

                                          When I look at the process list for mailscanner I see
                                          55735  ??  S      0:05.39 MailScanner: waiting for messages (perl5.12.4)
                                          56936  ??  S      0:04.45 MailScanner: waiting for messages (perl5.12.4)
                                          59478  ??  S      0:04.08 MailScanner: waiting for messages (perl5.12.4)
                                          60031  ??  S      0:04.05 MailScanner: waiting for messages (perl5.12.4)

                                          when I run tail -f /var/log/maillog |grep -i mailscanner

                                          I get nothing?

                                          if I restart mailscanner I get this

                                          Mar  9 11:06:58 mailgateway MailScanner[55777]: Using locktype = flock
                                          Mar  9 11:07:02 mailgateway MailScanner[57182]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner                                            version 4.83.5 starting…
                                          Mar  9 11:07:02 mailgateway MailScanner[57182]: Reading configuration file /usr/                                          local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
                                          Mar  9 11:07:02 mailgateway MailScanner[57182]: Reading configuration file /usr/                                          local/etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
                                          Mar  9 11:07:07 mailgateway MailScanner[56126]: Connected to Processing Attempts                                            Database
                                          Mar  9 11:07:07 mailgateway MailScanner[56126]: Found 0 messages in the Processi                                          ng Attempts Database
                                          Mar  9 11:07:07 mailgateway MailScanner[56126]: Using locktype = flock
                                          Mar  9 11:07:07 mailgateway MailScanner[58764]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner                                            version 4.83.5 starting…
                                          Mar  9 11:07:07 mailgateway MailScanner[58764]: Reading configuration file /usr/                                          local/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
                                          Mar  9 11:07:07 mailgateway MailScanner[58764]: Reading configuration file /usr/                                          local/etc/MailScanner/conf.d/README
                                          Mar  9 11:07:08 mailgateway MailScanner[57182]: Connected to Processing Attempts                                            Database
                                          Mar  9 11:07:08 mailgateway MailScanner[57182]: Found 0 messages in the Processi                                          ng Attempts Database
                                          Mar  9 11:07:08 mailgateway MailScanner[57182]: Using locktype = flock
                                          Mar  9 11:07:16 mailgateway MailScanner[58764]: Connected to Processing Attempts Database
                                          Mar  9 11:07:16 mailgateway MailScanner[58764]: Found 0 messages in the Processing Attempts Database
                                          Mar  9 11:07:16 mailgateway MailScanner[58764]: Using locktype = flock

                                          any help is apperciated

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                                          • marcellocM
                                            marcelloc
                                            last edited by

                                            check if you can find /^from:/ HOLD  on view configuration -> header check

                                            If not, change mailscanner Message Hold mode on antispam tab to manual and include the above line on access lists -> header

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