Debian ms v4.x install help. Deb, Alien or Source? attn Jason Desai

[Julian Field]

At 16:04 04/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm running Debian unstable (sarge) mailscanner (3.27) and exim (3.36).
>
>Some of my users are asking for features in the latest versions of
>mailscanner.
>
>I notice some posts indicating people (including Jason) are using newer
>versions of mailscanner than is available at packages.debian.org.  I'm
>mostly interested in the new mailscanner features and was wondering the
>best approach to installing without a .deb file.
>
>Are any dependency issues between exim 3.27 and MS 4.x?
>
>I figure my options are: an alternate site that has a .deb file, using
>Alien against the 4.x RPM file, or compiling from source.

If you are prepared to run from /opt/MailScanner then the tar installation
will do fine. If you are using 3.27 now, you will have most of the Perl
modules already installed. But still go through the tar installation guide
and make sure you have them all installed (there will be a few you don't
have). Then make any binaries like "tnef" point to tnef.linux and not
tnef.solaris. It shouldn't be too hard a job.
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Julian Field
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