version information.

[Ugo Bellavance]

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JD wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a couple of questions I want to throw out for the sake of discussion.
> I have Sophos v3.80. Has anyone heard of them cutting off virus definitions
> like symantec and mcafee have been known to do if you don't renew a
> subscription? Im worried that mailscanner will try to run the update script,
> won't get the updates, and I would never ever know until I'm swamped with
> viruses.

I suggest you use clamav as well to make sure you never get swamped with
viruses... but I can't help you with sofos.

> It seems that the mailscanner install faq's lean towards using
> sophos. Any reason why its preferred? and how important is it really to
> update mailscanner itself?

To benefit from the new features, for example block passwd-protected
archives, get the -v option explained below... stay tuned on this list
or look at the change log and you'll see.

> wheres my version of mailscanner listed anyway?

In the logs, when it starts, and in the new versions, you can do a

# MailScanner -v and it will give you MailScanner's and perl modules
versions.

>
> -Jason
>
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