how do I modify savscan DEFAULT options?

Question

Just installed Sophos free for linux and am trying to work thru some issues. (this is made difficult by my inability to find any documentation for the linux free product, except for the man pages in the installed package, not all of which actually get installed onto the system.) 
 My immediate problem is this: I use mutt for email. ever since installing Sophos, mutt no longer shows which mailboxes have new mail. I'm assuming it is related to this issue: 
 community.sophos.com/.../sophos-for-linux-savscan-changes-metadata-of-all-scanned-files 
 which says the solution is: call savscan with option --no-reset-atime 
 but I have no clue how to make that setting for the default settings. I'm not even running savscan (from the commandline). Using "PS -eLf" I can see that there are a lot of processes/threads for savd, and "ps ax | grep scan" I can see savscand running. I'm assuming that I need to change something so that these default processes/threads are running with the above option, but I have no clue how to do that. 
 18623 ? Sl 0:19 savscand --incident=unix://tmp/incident --namedscan=unix://root@tmp/namedscansprocessor.10 --ondemandcontrol=socketpair://58/61 socketpair://56/57 --threads=5 18641 ? Sl 0:18 savscand --incident=unix://tmp/incident socketpair://42/61 --threads=5 
 I know about savconfig, and I've used it to tell Sophos NOT to scan /var/spool/mail and /home/fredex/Mail, but that doesn't solve the problem. savconfig has no options that I can figure out that would set the "--no-reset-atime" option. 
 [root@fcshome man8]# ../../../bin/savconfig query Email: root@localhost EmailDemandSummaryIfThreat: true EmailLanguage: English EmailNotifier: true EmailServer: localhost:25 EnableOnStart: true ExcludeFilePaths: /home/fredex/Mail /var/spool/mail ExclusionEncodings: UTF-8 EUC-JP ISO-8859-1 LogMaxSizeMB: 100 NotifyOnUpdate: false PrimaryUpdateSourcePath: sophos: PrimaryUpdateUsername: FAVLjWY3354MB PrimaryUpdatePassword: ******** UploadSamples: false SendErrorEmail: true SendThreatEmail: true UINotifier: true UIpopupNotification: true UIttyNotification: true UpdatePeriodMinutes: 60 LiveProtection: enabled ScanArchives: mixed 
 You can sense my frustration, so I'd REALLY APPRECIATE IT if someone could offer me a little guidance here. 
 Thanks in advance! 
 Fred

QC · Accepted Answer

Hello Fred, 
 savscan is the on-demand scanner. savscan d is the daemon that performs on-access (real-time) scanning. As the latter scans (and thus accesses) a file in response to an access (attempt) by some other process (i.e. when the access is intercepted) -(-no)-reset-atime doesn't apply. Any anyway you're not using savscan . 
 I've used [savconfig] to tell Sophos NOT to scan /var/spool/mail and /home/fredex/Mail apparently you did not use a trailing slash. As you can exclude single files the slash is necessary to indicate a directory. /home/fredex/Mail denotes the file Mail in directory /home/fredex/ whereas /home/fredex/Mail/ excludes the directory Mail (recursively all its contents) under /home/fredex/ . Please see also chapter 15.2 in the Configuration Guide . 
 Christian