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

[Nathan J. Underwood]

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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