FreeBSD and MailScanner

[Pete]

Drew Marshall wrote:

>Martin Hepworth said:
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>>Pete
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>>from what I see of the ports version is a complete system, that also
>>sets up sendmail as well. JP will tell me if I'm wrong....
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>I use the ports system (One of the reasons I went to FreeBSD) and have
>never had a problem (A huge compliment to JP) and I use Postfix. I don't
>remember Sendmail listed as a dependency, so it won't install it for you
>(So you have the choice of mailer).
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>> From what I see you'll still have to reconfigure to use postfix in the
>>way from the FAQ. SO it kinda negates alot of the advantages of using
>>the ports version.
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>True and make it start up correctly (Not that hard) where as Exim and
>Sendmail have start up support in the mta.sh start up script (Which you
>need to remember to remove/ disable). The biggest benefit to using ports
>is that it installs all the dependencies (Never have to post why the logs
>are moaning about not having ::zip module etc!) and when upgrading the
>upgrade script automagically merges your MailScanner.conf file to the new
>one, ready to check, rename and run live. Fantastic and saves loads of
>time.
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>>I use the tar.gz version for this reason - also means I can backout a
>>version upgrade very quickly should it not work for some reason. The
>>tar.gz version would normally get installed as
>>/opt/MailScanner-version.subversion.subversion-release, this means then
>>you link /opt/MailScanner to this release, if you keep the old release
>>you can easily backout to the old version by merely stopping MS,
>>resetting the link and restarting....
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>The benefit of NOT running from port. Doesn't worry me too much as I tend
>to only run releases. If I did run mailscanner-devel, it is possible to
>back out to the release version with out too much hassle.
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>>works very nicely for me...
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>And me (From a slightly different side of the same field!) ;-)
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>Drew
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>>>>Pete wrote:
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>>>>>I am going to try and run MaiLScanner on Free BSD on my secondary
>>>>>(very
>>>>>low volume) mailgateway, i want to run it in a used enviroment as i am
>>>>>pretty new to BSD but i want to use it in action while i learn as much
>>>>>as i can.
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>>>>>My question is, is the offical ports tree updated with MS or should
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>>>>>download the archive posted to this list, extract to
>>>>>/usr/ports/mail/maillscanner-devel and install from there? maybe
>>>>>extracting the new devel releases over the top of the previous ones?
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>>>>>I did a /stand/sysinstall and updated the ports tree, but make search
>>>>>name=mailscanner finds nothing :(
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>>>>>Has anyone wrriten any specific doco for freeBSD/postfix/mailscanner ?
>>>>>Just follow the guide on BSD and the postfix one on Julian's site?
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>>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>>Pete
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>>>Hmmm - so if use Ports, then no postfix support at all?
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Thanks very guys for the 2 insights - seems that this is flexible enough
to work very smoothly regardless which way intend to you it, now i just
gotta figure out which way :)

Is there much of a FreeBSD Postfix guide around? If some one were happy
enough to post me (off list if necessary) any tips/detail on running
postfix, upgrading ports, startup scripts etc i would gladly write a
guide as i have one test machine at home and one at work, and plan to go
over and over this until i know it - so it would be nothing to turn this
excercise into a short guide - submit to Julian for addition to current
guide?