MailScanner Block Local Email

Administrator for email server that used MailScanner as the spam and virus email filtering need to check this setting inside /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

Spam List =

It should not contain ORDB.

Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/2124224

My MailScanner setting

Spam List = spamhaus-ZEN spamcop.net NJABL


Spamhaus
http://www.spamhaus.org/

Spamcop
http://www.spamcop.net/

Njabl
http://www.njabl.org/

MailWatch For MailScanner GeoIp Database Permission Denied

MailWatch For MailScanner GeoIp Database Permission Denied

This problem happen when we want to update GeoIP Database (Tools/links) from MailWatch.

Need to edit geoip_update.php inside MailWatch web directory ( /var/www/html). Need to add LOCAL for the mysql LOAD

before

// Load the data
dbquery("LOAD DATA INFILE '".$base.'/'.$file2."' INTO TABLE geoip_country FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"'");


after

// Load the data
dbquery("LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '".$base.'/'.$file2."' INTO TABLE geoip_country FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"'");


MailScanner A Free Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter
http://www.mailscanner.info/

MailWatch for MailScanner is a web based front-end to MailScanner
http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/