Email Vulnerabilities

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
   I set up my mailscanner directory thus:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     daemon        10 Sep 23 14:01 bin -> bin-3.23-1/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     none        1024 Sep 13 10:23 bin-3.22-14/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     none        1024 Sep 23 13:46 bin-3.23-1/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     daemon        10 Sep 23 14:01 etc -> etc-3.23-1/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     none        1024 Sep 13 10:29 etc-3.22-14/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     none        1024 Sep 23 13:55 etc-3.23-1/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     none         512 May  2 11:52 man/
drwxr-xr-x   8 jaearick jaearick     512 Sep 23 14:06 src/
drwx------   4 root     none         512 May  3 09:38 var/

When a new version of mailscanner comes out, I untar it and move the
mailscanner/etc and mailscanner/bin directories to etc-[version]
and bin-[version].  Then I do side-by-side comparisons of the default
config versus my setup.  When I've carried my config changes into the
new etc files, I stop mailscanner, change the symlinks, restart
mailscanner.  Virtually no down time.  It would be nice if this
kind of directory versioning was incorporated into the tarfiles
for v4 somehow...

** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: jaearick at colby.edu
** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Glynn S. Condez wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:18:03 +0800
> From: Glynn S. Condez <glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
>
> oh by the way, this the first time that I am going to upgrade the
> mailscanner, is it possible if I am going to rename the old mailscanner
> directory and install the new version of mailscanner as mailscanner?
>
> or is there anything that I need to be reconfigure?
>
> Thanks
> --- Glynn ---
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glynn S. Condez" <glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
>
>
> > This mailing list is great, the response is so fast  :)  well I'll do the
> > upgrade, email you guys about the results.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --- Glynn ---
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
> >
> >
> > > Try upgrading to 3.22-15  I think Julian got it to detect all of the
> > vulnerabilities.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > > Behalf Of Glynn S. Condez
> > > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:58 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Email Vulnerabilities
> > >
> > >
> > > Based on these website http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest,  some of
> the
> > > test email that contents a test virus or codes goes through and the
> > > mailscanner doesn't detect the embedded scripts in the emails.
> > >
> > > In version 4, is it possible to scan these kinds of viruses or code? by
> > the
> > > way I'm using the stable version of mailscanner 3-22.7 with
> > > spamassassin2-31.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Glynn ---
> > >
> >
>