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Marquiz

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AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« on: August 09, 2004, 01:30:51 PM »
I've got a problem with making avast relay work :/
I realy do not know what I am doing wrong.
After adding content filter to postfix master.cf I'm trying to send an e-mail to myself and it is not reaching it's destination. It is like sending it itno a vaccum ;) but seriously it is missing somewhere.
Any ideas what could be wrong?


# ==========================================================================
# service type  private unpriv  chroot  wakeup  maxproc command + args
#               (yes)   (yes)   (yes)   (never) (50)
# ==========================================================================
#smtp   inet    n       -       y       -       -       smtpd
smtp    inet    n       -       n       -       -       smtpd -o content_filter=smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025
10026     inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd -o myhostname=localhost
#smtps    inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
#  -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#submission     inet    n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
#  -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#628      inet  n       -       n       -       -       qmqpd
pickup  fifo    n       -       y       60      1       pickup
cleanup unix    n       -       y       -       0       cleanup
#qmgr     fifo  n       -       n       300     1       qmgr
qmgr    fifo    n       -       y       300     1       nqmgr
#tlsmgr   fifo  -       -       n       300     1       tlsmgr
rewrite unix    -       -       y       -       -       trivial-rewrite
bounce  unix    -       -       y       -       0       bounce
defer   unix    -       -       y       -       0       bounce
flush   unix    n       -       y       1000?   0       flush
smtp    unix    -       -       y       -       -       smtp
showq   unix    n       -       y       -       -       showq
error   unix    -       -       y       -       -       error
local     unix  -       n       n       -       -       local
virtual unix    -       n       y       -       -       virtual
lmtp    unix    -       -       y       -       -       lmtp


in log file for avast relay i've got only


Aug 09 13:31:11 avastrelay[5610]: info: Starting avast! relay
Aug 09 13:31:11 avastrelay[5610]: info: listening on '127.0.0.1:10025'
Aug 09 13:32:02 avastrelay[5612]: info: smtp connection with '127.0.0.1:10025'
Aug 09 13:32:07 avastrelay[5612]: info: closing smtp connection '127.0.0.1:10025'
Aug 09 13:33:40 avastrelay[5612]: info: smtp connection with '127.0.0.1:10025'
Aug 09 13:33:45 avastrelay[5612]: info: closing smtp connection '127.0.0.1:10025'


and for deamon

Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: Starting avast! daemon
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: listenning on socket '/var/run/avast4mailscanner.sock'
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5572)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5573)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5574)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5576)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5577)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5578)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5579)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5580)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5581)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4mail', pid=5582)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: listenning on socket '/var/run/avast4filescanner.sock'
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4file', pid=5583)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4file', pid=5584)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4file', pid=5585)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4file', pid=5586)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4file', pid=5587)
Aug 09 13:30:44 avastd[5571]: info: start new process ('avast4file', pid=5588)


I'm running RedHat 9
postfix-1.1.12-1
avast4linux-1.0.6-i386

Dublin

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2004, 04:13:06 PM »
pls, try to connect directly to the avastrelay from terminal using telnet (telnet 127.0.0.1 10025) and then try to send e-mail from the terminal. If you'll see 'scanned message has been relayed' string in the avastrelay log file, the message has been processed and the avastrelay is ok.

Marquiz

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2004, 04:56:38 PM »
hmmm... That's strange:


Aug 09 17:03:15 avastrelay[7330]: info: message accepted for relaying
Aug 09 17:03:15 avastrelay[7330]: info: smtp client connection to '127.0.0.1:10026'
Aug 09 17:03:15 avastrelay[7330]: info: scanned message has been relayed
Aug 09 17:03:15 avastrelay[7330]: info: closing smtp connection '127.0.0.1:10025'
Aug 09 17:03:15 avastrelay[7330]: info: closing smtp client '127.0.0.1:10026'
Aug 09 17:03:15 avastrelay[7330]: info: closing avast! client '/var/run/avast4mailscanner.sock'


but where is my message?

{few minutes later}

Now i know where the problem is:

Everything is ok with a small messages. But when i attached tgz2 file (size 4mb, after extraction 47mb and over 2.000 files) the message is gone for good...
btw. max message size in my postfix is set to 50mb so this is not a problem.

9mb (compressed) 15mb(extracted) 15(no of files in archive)
this on also went through without any problems.

any sugestion regarding the one whitch is missing?

Dublin

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2004, 05:53:25 PM »
can you send me that tgz2 file at mensik@asw.cz, pls ?

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2004, 06:04:16 PM »
What you could also try is disable decompression of TGZ archives on the mail scanning daemon. See /etc/avastd.conf for more...

Just for the sake of knowing whether the problem is related to the decompression of the (big) archive...

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Marquiz

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2004, 09:05:02 AM »
can you send me that tgz2 file at mensik@asw.cz, pls ?


I'm sorry Dublin, but I can.t because this archive is a backup of server configuration including passwd and so on.....

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2004, 09:08:32 AM »
What you could also try is disable decompression of TGZ archives on the mail scanning daemon. See /etc/avastd.conf for more...

Just for the sake of knowing whether the problem is related to the decompression of the (big) archive...

Thanks
Vlk

strange thing happened because I have recived this big archiwe few hours later, along with all small e-mail sent leter.... that's realy strange. I will try to monitor the relay and let You now when I figer out what's wrong.

Very big THANKS for Your help.

now I'm going to buy a comertial licence :-)

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2004, 09:12:42 AM »
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now I'm going to buy a comertial licence :-)

Take your time to do the proper evaluation... No rush.   :)


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Marquiz

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2004, 02:49:57 PM »
I've got another problem and I don;t realy know what to do now... It seems that something is wrong with relaying...
The only thing I have in my avastrelay log are:
[size=0.5]
Aug 13 14:58:02 avastrelay[11003]: info: smtp connection with '127.0.0.1:10025'
Aug 13 14:58:02 avastrelay[11003]: info: closing smtp connection '127.0.0.1:10025'
[/size]
but not even one e-mail is omming out or in. The avastrelay seems to be workin' but why is is not scaning or forwarding any e-mails?
---------few minutes later-----------
ok, i think I have found the problem:
[size=0.5]
C575B5AC034     2944 Tue Aug 10 12:11:53  Natasha@prob-helper.biz
(host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 Message processing failed: Permission denied)
                                         prepress@dmsystem.com.pl
[/size]
any idea why I've got permision denied while connecting to relay?
--------few minutes later--------------
eureka!!!!
I finally managed to fing where was an error....
Permissions for folder /var/spool/avastrelay were wrong
after changing it everythin is all right
« Last Edit: August 13, 2004, 03:32:56 PM by Marquiz »

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Re:AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2005, 11:42:07 PM »
FINAL UPDATE: :-[  :-[  :-[, possibly three smileys are not enough to express how much embarrassed (and idiot) I am felling. I didn't finish to read the last Marquiz post. I think that after a complete day reading HOWTO's, I was a little tired for read a bit more :).

I hope my eval of Avast4Linux take me to the same of Avast4Windows. I am using Home edition in my Home computer and evaluating to buy Pro and suggest to my boss to buy it for Windows workstations and maybe Avast4Linux for mail scanning.

Regards,

Valdo
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pls, try to connect directly to the avastrelay from terminal using telnet (telnet 127.0.0.1 10025) and then try to send e-mail from the terminal. If you'll see 'scanned message has been relayed' string in the avastrelay log file, the message has been processed and the avastrelay is ok.

I have installed Postfix 2.1.5 on Redhat 9.0 and avast for Linux 1.0.8 with demo license and I followed the HOWTO-Postfix doc.  when I send an email using postfix this message appear in maillog
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Mar  2 14:55:53 fw postfix/qmgr[8412]: 05D268E8B6: from=<dummy@mydomain.com>, size=388, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar  2 14:55:53 fw postfix/smtp[8517]: 05D268E8B6: to=<dummy@externaldomain.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=2163, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 Message processing failed: Permission denied (in reply to DATA command))

As you suggested, I have tried to connect directly to avastrelay using telnet and this is the log of session:
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[root@fw root]# telnet 127.0.0.1 10025
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp.mydomain.com SMTP avastrelay v1.0.8 - Service ready
mail from:<dummy@mydomain.com>
250 Ok
rcpt to:<dummy@externaldomain.com>
250 Ok
data
451 Message processing failed: Permission denied
Connection closed by foreign host.

This is the master.cf  lines modified after read the HOWTO:
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#======================================================
# service type  private unpriv  chroot  wakeup  maxproc command + args
#               (yes)   (yes)   (yes)   (never) (100)
#======================================================
#smtp      inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
smtp      inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd -o content_filter=smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025
10026         inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd -o myhostname=localhost
UPDATED: I have tried telnet 127.0.0.1 10026 and it works fine. so the problem is in avastrelay, a missing or wrong parameter? I don't know.

and this is the avastrelay start command line as shown in the HOWTO doc.
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avastrelay -i localhost:10025 -I localhost:10026 -a /var/run/avast4mailscanner.sock -l /var/log/avast4/avastrelay -u avrelay
UPDATED: due to "permission denied" message, I have added the -r parameter to avastrelay, but it doesn't work.

I've lookep up in avastd log and avastrelay log and there is no error message, only normal startup messages.

What can be wrong?

TIA

Valdo
« Last Edit: March 03, 2005, 10:34:06 PM by vldesco »

Dublin

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Re: AvastRelay Problem - Am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2005, 10:55:56 AM »
check permissions of avastrelay process and temporary directory of the process  (/var/spool/avastrelay by default)