Version 4.00.0a4

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 23 23:11:50 IST 2002


At 21:39 23/09/2002, you wrote:
>When you are making changes to the code for the V4 generation, are you
>only changing bin/mailscanner, or do I need everything within
>the tarball each time?

The bin/mailscanner script is more likely to stay the same than any of the
other files :-)
I would definitely grab the whole thing, not just the little
bin/mailscanner script.

>   I'm thinking about just symlinking /opt/MailScanner to whatever the
> tarball creates when I extract it and
>then copying my mailscanner.conf back over.

That's the best idea.




>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:57 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Version 4.00.0a4
>
>
>At 14:43 23/09/2002, you wrote:
> >Thanks
> >
> >If I start with "Load SpamAssasin = yes" I get
> >
> >Can't locate Mail/SpamAssassin.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> >/opt/MailScanner/bin /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
> >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at MailScanner/SA.pm line 69
>
>Have you installed SpamAssassin? If not, then I would fully expect "Load
>SpamAssassin=yes" to fail.
>
> >Also just noticed I got
> >
> >We haven't got any child processes, which isn't right!, No child processes
> >at /opt/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner line 174.
> >We have just tried to reap a process which wasn't one of ours!, No child
> >processes at /opt/MailScanner/bin/mailscanner line 177.
>
>This is because it is aborting while trying to load SpamAssassin. If you
>haven't got it installed, then clearly(?) you need to set "Load
>SpamAssassin = no".
>
> >Seems fine if I set to "Load SpamAssasin = no"
> >
> >I dont have spamassasin installed.
>
>Aha! Don't tell it to load software you haven't got. Surprisingly enough it
>fails :-)
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>Julian Field
> >To: <mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 2:22 PM
> >Subject: Re: Version 4.00.0a4
> >
> >At 12:49 23/09/2002, you wrote:
> >>Just trying it out on a totally fresh server.
> >>
> >>Looks really good, comments are
> >>
> >>1. Sophos.install - does not point to the new location for sophos-wrapper
> >>and sophos-autoupdate scripts.
> >Fixed.
> >
> >>2. If "Use SpamAssassin = no" and "Load SpamAssassin = yes" in
> >>mailscanner.conf, it does try to use spamassasin. I would have expected
> >>the "Use SpamAssassin = no" to have precedence.
> >Does it try to use it, or just try to load it?
> >Working out whether "Use SpamAssassin" is yes or no is no longer easy
> >because it could be a ruleset rather than a simple value. That's why I put
> >in the "Load SpamAssassin" option in, as that has to be just yes or no.
> >
> >>Im very interested in the ability to do different signatures for
> >>different domains, and will be trying that out next, I was looking at the
> >>example and it seemed to apply for outgoing mail only e.g.
> >>
> >>    From:        <mailto:*@domain1.com>*@domain1.com
> >> /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/domain1.sig.txt
> >>    From:        <mailto:*@domain2.com>*@domain2.com
> >> /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/domain2.sig.txt
> >>
> >>Does this work for for To: as well? e.g.
> >>
> >>     To:        <mailto:*@domain1.com>*@domain1.com
> >> /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/domain1.sig.txt
> >>     To:        <mailto:*@domain2.com>*@domain2.com
> >> /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/domain2.sig.txt
> >You can have "from", "to" or "fromto" or "tofrom" etc in the first field.
> >It just looks at the first word for the word "from" and for the word "to"
> >so if you want both then you can combine them how you like. So I would do
> >         FromTo:         *@domain1.com
> > /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/domain1.sig.txt
> >         FromTo:         *@domain2.com
> > /opt/MailScanner/etc/reports/domain2.sig.txt
> >
> >Don't forget to set the HTML sigs as well as the txt ones.
> >--
> >Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> >jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> >Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                             Southampton SO17 1BJ
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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
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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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
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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