[clamav-users] MailScanner Incoming and Quarantine Permissions change

[Jerry]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 07:17:56 +0000, Mark Meelhuysen stated:

> Hello All,
> 
> I am quite new to mailScanner. After setting up some test-systems, I now
> have one running in production, in front of an Exchange 2013 box. Al my
> minor problems were solved and i finally had a box running smoothly. But
> suddenly (after 3 weeks) my mailqueue starts growing after midnight and no
> mails are delivered. Research showed me that at a certain point permissions
> are changed from the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> and /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine directories, so that MailScanner is
> unable to make a new folder for that day.
> 
> The permissions are changed as:
> 
> drwxr-x---   9 postfix root 4096 Nov  5 08:03 incoming
> drwxr-x---   8 root apache  4096 Nov  5 07:56 quarantine
> 
> They should be:
> 
> drwxr-x---   9 postfix postfix 4096 Nov  5 08:03 incoming
> drwxr-x---   8 postfix apache  4096 Nov  5 07:56 quarantine
> 
> This has happened for the last 3 nights now. I changed them back manually,
> but they seem to go back every day and i cant figure out when this happens
> and what makes it happen.
> 
> Anybody any suggestions?

From the Postfix Add-On Software page:

mailscanner system, works with Postfix and other MTAs. WARNING: This software
uses unsupported methods to manipulate Postfix queue files directly. This
will result in corruption or loss of mail. The mailscanner authors have so far
refused to discuss a proper access API or protocol.

Personally, I believe that there are better methods of achieving what you
desire. Personally, I use "amavis" <http://amavis.sourceforge.net/>.

-- 
Jerry