I have to confess that after seeing this I checked into it and installed the ones for CentOS. I haven’t done anything but install them (no configuration) but I have noticed that none of the email I’ve gotten since last night has had viruses in it and some of my accounts get dozens of virus infected email a day. Good job, guys.
We are close, we’ve been testing internally on our shared servers for over a week and it’s looking good. Installing the RPMs won’t hurt anything but they won’t help either as I belive the defaults are “off” for everything.
I also have to confess (unfortunately) that it is most certainly a coincidence, since there is some configuration that needs to happen (which the InterWorx update will take care of) before incoming mail is virus scanned.
Really? That IS odd. I downloaded over a hundred messages today from addresses that are normally filled with SPAM and viruses. Not a one.
Anyway anybody know what THIS means:
[root@centos root]# service smtp reload
svc: warning: unable to chdir to /var/qmail/supervise/send: file does not exist
Sending HUP signal to qmail-send: [ OK ]
Obviously it reloaded (and restarted) fine, but I was just wondering. Right now I am having a problen dowloading email (probably linked to the intermitent problems I’ve been having with DNS as we talked about in another thread). And I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a problem server side.
Actually it looks like there’s a problem with the reload and doqueue smtp init functions.
Instead of using reload you can do restart safely, or, you can edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smtp file, and change references to /var/qmail/supervise/send to /service/send
Downloading mail would probably involve pop3 or imap, depending on which protocol you’re using to get your mail. I’d check the /var/log/pop3/current file for errors (or /var/log/imap4/current).
When I disable Norton Internet Serurity it suddenly works again. I did an udate of that yesterday. The question is . . . what do I do about that. I depend on that software to protect me from viruses. I just hope they release a new upgrade fixing this problem soon.
Paul you wrote, “since there is some configuration that needs to happen (which the InterWorx update will take care of) before incoming mail is virus scanned.”
Is that a 1.9 update or something sooner? I’ve got users clammering for anti-spam/anti-virus and am wonder if I should wait a couple weeks or go ahead and do the configuration myself if it is going to be longer than a couple weeks.