mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[jack mendez]

i got error on line 42 with the mailscanner perl script
and compilation stopped
At 06:55 AM 8/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>> >>
>> >
>>
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