mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[Julian Field]

Definitely don't use it. It's over a year old, and is version 3 which I no
longer support (except when someone *Really* needs it).

At 20:47 14/08/2003, you wrote:
>I don't suggest using Debian's version of MailScanner.  Download the tarball
>from the MailScanner web site and follow the installation instructions
>there.  I think I had to download some perl modules (and apply some patches)
>and compile them too.  Debian Woody did not have everything needed.
>
>Jason
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jack mendez [mailto:wiler1 at EARTHLINK.NET]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:10 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: [MAILSCANNER] mailscanner and debian woody 3.0
> >
> >
> > okay here is the deal.
> > i tried to install mailscanner with debian woody 3.0 and it
> > failed, broke
> > my /var/lib/dpkg/status file and put lots of stuff where it
> > wasn't supposed
> > to go.
> > here is what i did.
> > first, i upgraded to the newest version of f-prot.
> >  (4.1.2)
> > for this, i knew i'd need the newest version of mailscanner
> > because the
> > wrappers had changed.
> > i downloaded the latest rpm version, downloaded and installed all the
> > required perl modules, used alien to convert the rpm file to
> > a .deb file,
> > it appeared to work fine but no go.
> > can anyone help with the install, or give some suggestions?
> > thanks.
> > Jack
> >

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