mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[jack mendez]

i installed several modules but it still failes, i am a bit confused about
the exim configuration as well.
At 03:47 PM 8/14/03 -0400, 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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