Why mailscanner fails recognizing a forwarded infected.

[Julian Field]

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At 08:55 07/09/2004, you wrote:
>I'm absolutly sure I didn't make any symlink by hand at all. I only installed
>MailScanner by its own installer. Does this prove that there aren't symlinks?

ls -ld / /var /var/spool /var/spool/MailScanner /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

> > Why not install clamav 'on the side', it's free and imho a lot better than
> > mcafee which is always slow with their updates?
>
>Yes I will try it.
>"on the side" you mean double scan a mail with clamav and uvscan on the
>same Mailscanner box?

Just specify multiple scanners on the "Virus Scanners =" line.
When you have installed ClamAV, check that the entry in
/etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf points to the right place. If you
installed ClamAV from an RPM, you will probably need to change the end of
the line to just say
         /usr

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Julian Field
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