On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:34 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > Hi all, > > i just installed MailScanner-4.60.8-1.rpm.tar.gz on centos 5 with > sendmail 8.13.8. > > Whenever I send emails, I get bellow error. > > > Jun 21 15:33:01 mail MailScanner[3657]: New Batch: Scanning 1 > messages, 767 bytes > Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: Virus and Content Scanning: > Starting > Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: ERROR: Unable to create > temporary directory > Jun 21 15:33:02 mail MailScanner[3657]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 > messages > Jun 21 15:33:03 mail sendmail[3694]: l5LA2wY5003682: > to=<test at mail.csbsl.com>, ctladdr=<root at mail.csbsl.com> (0/0), > delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=120305, dsn= 2.0.0, > stat=Sent > > > > WHY IS THAT? > > Then, I disabled Selinux as follows. > > setenfoce 0 > > Then, Checked again and no such error was given. Worked properly. > > I do not want to leave Selinux disable. So could you pls help me to > solve thsi issue ? ---- sounds like a permissions error on /var/spool/MailScanner or /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming I use postfix and the user must be able to write to those directories (in your case, whatever user sendmail runs as...something like smmsp)... # ls -l /var/spool/MailScanner/ total 8 drwx------ 7 postfix root 4096 Jun 21 09:18 incoming drwx------ 4 postfix postfix 4096 Jun 14 10:23 quarantine Your questions might be better directed to MailScanner list -- Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>