Installation experiences on SuSE 7.3 - sendmail-tls

[Julian Field]

At 10:26 21/10/2002, you wrote:
>Just a few comments to the installation, which I did on my SuSE Linux
>7.3 Server:
>
>I had Version 3.24-1 installed recently and before I started
>installation I deinstalled the old version with rpm -e mailscanner.
>
>1. installation from RPM with the install.sh Script did not work,
>MIME-Tools were not installed successfully, so final error message was
>something like "Mailscanner needs MIME-Tools >4".

Any idea why the MIME-tools installation failed? You really do need
5.411pl4 to be installed and not some older version. There are important
security fixes in 5.411pl4.

>2. Second error message said "MailScanner needs sendmail". This was
>obviously due to the fact, that I have sendmail-tls installed. Maybe you
>can add sendmail-tls to the dependencies in future, to prevent this
>error message

I don't know how you specify "requires a or b" in the RPM spec file :-(

>3. I finally went through the installation procedure step-by-step, by
>installing the perl packages manually and finally installing Mailscanner
>with rpm -Uhv --nodeps. This worked and after mv
>/etc/Mailscanner/Mailscanner.conf /etc/Mailscanner/mailscanner.conf new
>version runs.

You should start it using "check_MailScanner" and not directly anyway, so
this change was unnecessary.

Anyone fancy packaging up Version 4 for SuSE? I've no experience with SuSE
myself, so someone else can probably do it faster.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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