MailScanner Manual is now available

[Julian Field]

At 18:05 06/05/2004, you wrote:
>One thing I haven't got around to finish is a "cookbook" type doc that
>would have things like:
>
>perl -MCPAN -e shell
>install Net::CIDR
>install ...
>
>Bla bla blah...
>
>service MailScanner start && tail -f /var/log/maillog

If you have the "service" command, then you are on RedHat and therefore
don't need to install the perl modules by hand. install.sh does all that
for you.


>Sort of like a "no brainer" mailscanner install, step-by-step.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:03 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: MailScanner Manual is now available
>
>
>Another suggestion if I may:
>
>Possibly another Appendix.  Something that is a rundown of the whole book
>and recommendations for the best spam blocking and virus scanning. Such as
>(knowing that the information might be skipping stuff or not: Providing
>that you know that the more stuff you install you need a beefy machine but
>for the best protecting we recommend:
>
>So the "perfect" mailscanner will/might be:
>Install Redhat (or OS)
>Install MailScanner
>Install spamassassing
>         Use bayes and do this and this and this for best results
>         Use these filters from here http://xxxx.xxx.xxx.com Install virus
>protection
>         Use this one, its free
>         Use maybe this one too as It catches more virues and updates
>more    often
>Install one of the monitoring tools, mailwatch, vispan.
>Install eiterh DCC, Razor, Pyzor.
>
>I know that is a little redundant but Its straight to the point and would
>help people like me
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Stephen Swaney
>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:06 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: MailScanner Manual is now available
>
>Version 1.0 of the MailScanner Manual is finally ready for download. Many
>thanks to Ugo Bellavance and Michele Neylon for proofreading, technical
>corrections and some excellent ideas for additional material.
>
>Version 1.0 is very specific to RPM-based Linux distributions. This is
>because while I often work on other distributions, I'm more familiar with
>this version of MailScanner. Hopefully there are some of you out there who
>can contribute material to help cover the other operating systems that
>MailScanner supports. Please drop me a line off list if you are willing to
>contribute any additional material.
>
>The virus scanning section is missing a few of the latest supported virus
>scanner. This is inevitable since Julian keeps adding support for
>additional virus scanners faster than we can document them. We expect that
>this section and the entire Manual will be updated with every major
>release of MailScanner.
>
>To save trees, the manual is designed to be printed and bound double sided
>on US letter sized paper. I'll try and get out an A1 version as soon as I
>have the time.
>
>Please understand that Version 1.0 is just a beginning. We hope it will
>grow as fast as you can contribute.
>
>Any errors or omissions are mine alone and any corrections or additional
>material will be gratefully accepted.
>
>The manual, in PDF format, may be downloaded from:
>
>         www.fsl.com/support
>
>Just click on the MailScanner Manual link.
>
>Steve
>
>Stephen Swaney
>President
>Fortress Systems Ltd.
>Phone: 202 338-1670
>Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
>
>
>
>--
>This message has been scanned for viruses and
>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>believed to be clean.
>
>Fortress Systems Ltd.
>www.fsl.com
>
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