mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[Desai, Jason]

What is the error message you get when it fails?  Did you look at the Using
MailScanner with Exim doc?  What are you confused about?

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jack mendez [mailto:wiler1 at EARTHLINK.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] mailscanner and debian woody 3.0
>
>
> 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
> >>
> >
>