Turning off anti-spam breaks anti-virus and mail delivery

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jasonferrara
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Turning off anti-spam breaks anti-virus and mail delivery

Post by jasonferrara »

I want to use anti-virus, but not the anti-spam service.
In Configuration on the admin page...
In "Global Settings" -> "AS/AV" I have "Enable spam checking and antivirus" checked.
In Servers -> myServer -> Services I have Anti-Virus checked and Anti-Spam unchecked.
In this configuration, it appears that amavisd doesn't run, an so mail gets hung up in the queue as shown below.
Mar 4 13:52:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[12097]: initializing the server-side TLS engine

Mar 4 13:52:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[12097]: connect from xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Mar 4 13:52:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[12097]: 40B3B8A1D9: client=xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Mar 4 13:52:24 postman postfix/cleanup[12107]: 40B3B8A1D9: message-id=

Mar 4 13:52:24 xxx postfix/qmgr[11443]: 40B3B8A1D9: from=, size=3034, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Mar 4 13:52:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[12097]: disconnect from xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Mar 4 13:52:24 xxxxx postfix/smtp[12115]: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused (port 10024)

Mar 4 13:52:24 xxxxx postfix/smtp[12115]: 40B3B8A1D9: to=, relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused)
zmcontrol status returns
antivirus Stopped

zmamavisdctl is not running

ldap Running

logger Running

mailbox Running

mta Running

snmp Running

spell Running


If I enable Anti-Spam in the server settings, mail starts flowing through the system again and zmcontrol status returns
antispam Running

antivirus Running

ldap Running

logger Running

mailbox Running

mta Running

snmp Running

spell Running


So it looks like something is broken where if Anti-Spam is turned off, the Anti-Virus stuff doesn't start correctly.
I see this with 4.0.4_GA and 4.5.2_GA running under FC4.
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
17629anand
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Turning off anti-spam breaks anti-virus and mail delivery

Post by 17629anand »

Please file this in bugzilla.
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