[Bug Report / MSFE v8.21 ] MailScanner.conf builder creates bad line

[Firewalls4Life]

While tailing logs I noticed that I was getting an error message where MailScanner was complaining that it couldn't find the virus.scanning.rules file on the filesystem root.

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Dec  7 17:51:26 server MailScanner: MailScanner Email Processor version 5.0.2 starting...
Dec  7 17:51:26 server MailScanner: Reading configuration file /usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
Dec  7 17:51:26 server MailScanner: Reading configuration file /usr/mailscanner/etc/conf.d/README
Dec  7 17:51:26 server MailScanner: Cannot open ruleset file /virus.scanning.rules, No such file or directory

Obviously /virus.scanning.rules isn't the correct path, so I began searching the config files as to what was pointing to that file, and why it was looking in the filesystem root.

I found that the file at

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/usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf

contained a configuration as seen here:

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#
# Removing/Logging dangerous or potentially offensive content
# -----------------------------------------------------------
#

# Do you want to scan the messages for potentially dangerous content?
# Setting this to "no" will disable all the content-based checks except
# Virus Scanning, Allow Partial Messages and Allow External Message Bodies.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Dangerous Content Scanning = %CRDIOERF77A1CVFFA6HLKZNDBJZBBY5ASGK2ISI0FVZKLUNDWC2-dir%/virus.scanning.rules

it should say:

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Dangerous Content Scanning = %rules-dir%/virus.scanning.rules

I believe when I edited via the MSFE GUI that it failed to generate that line properly.

I manually edited the

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/usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf

file and changed it to say

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Dangerous Content Scanning = %rules-dir%/virus.scanning.rules

then I restarted MailScanner.

The logs now show as follows, with the error message no longer present. :)

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Dec  7 18:27:53 server MailScanner: MailScanner Email Processor version 5.0.2 starting...
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Reading configuration file /usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Reading configuration file /usr/mailscanner/etc/conf.d/README
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Read 868 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Read 5807 hostnames from the phishing blacklists
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Config: calling custom init function MailControlLogging
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Using SpamAssassin results cache
Dec  7 18:27:54 server MailScanner: Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
Dec  7 18:27:56 server MailScanner: Using locktype = posix

[ForumAdmin]

This will be fixed in the next release. Thank you for highlighting the issue.