Bug#263379: exim4: permissions on scan directory prevent email scanning

[David Clymer]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 00:39, Marc Haber wrote:
> severity #263379 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:11:53PM -0400, David Clymer wrote:
> > following an upgrade of exim4 and from clamav 0.70 to 0.74, clamav
> > rejects all mail due to the fact that it can no longer access the files
> > it is attempting to scan. My assumption is that this may have been
> > caused by a change of permissions or ownership on the /var/spool/exim4/scan
> > directory, or the ownership/permissions of the files that exim puts there to be
> > scanned.
> 
> There is no /var/spool/exim4/scan directory in the distribution.
> 
> Please elaborate.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc

Odd. There definitely is on my system and I'm absolutely certain 
I didn't add it myself. I did start out with woody, perhaps using a 
backport of exim4, before moving to sarge. Is it possible that its 
a leftover from earlier versions of the package? 

Aha! The problem is with clamav, or more accurately, caused by a change
in the clamav package
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250335). The scan
directory must get added by one of the clamav packages. 

My bad. I just assumed it was an exim4 directory, which is why I
reported it as an exim4 bug.

Bug closed/retracted/whatever.

-davidc