f-protwrapper version 3.27

[Steve Bassi]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: f-protwrapper version 3.27


> At 02:27 08/08/2003, you wrote:
> >I am still using 3.27 with F-prot.
> >
> >With the latest version of f-prot and the old mailscanner (3.27) I get
the
> >following message.
> >
> >Either you've found a bug in MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or
> >F-Prot's output format has changed! F-Prot said this "Action: Report
> >only". Please mail the author of MailScanner
> >
> >What do I need to amend in f-protwrapper to correct this ?
>
> You need to get the latest F-Prot parser from the more recent MailScanner,
> and replace your old one with this new one.
>
> Go somewhere safe
>          cd /tmp
> Download the latest MailScanner-4.22-5.tar.gz
> Unpack it
>          tar xzf MailScanner-4.22-5.tar.gz
> Get to the right place
>          cd MailScanner-4.22-5/lib/MailScanner
>
> Now take a look at SweepViruses.pm. You will find a line
>          sub ProcessFProtOutput {
> Save the whole of that sub to a file.
>
> Now go to wherever you have installed your copy of MailScanner 3.27. Hunt
> in there and you will find a file "sweep.pl". Save a backup copy of this
> somewhere safe in case you get into trouble.
>
> Again, in that file you will find a "sub ProcessFProtOutput {" line.
> Replace the whole of that sub with the one you just extracted from version
> 4.22-5.
>
> Then do a
>          perl -c sweep.pl
> to syntax check it.
>
> Then restart MailScanner and you should now have the most recent parser
> which will handle the new F-Prot versions.
>
> Sorry that is so long and convoluted, but the only direct support I now do
> for version 3 is major security bugs (which no-one has found).
>
> P.S. Don't try blindly copying any other code from version 4 into version
> 3, the *only* bits you can copy over are the virus scanners parsers. It
was
> a deliberate choice I made when creating version 4 just in case this exact
> thing happened.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
>
Thanks Julian.

That works ...

Rgds Bassi