Feedback on MailScanner 4.56.1-1 beta

[Denis Beauchemin]

Jim Holland a écrit :
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>
>   
>> Jim Holland wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Julian
>>>
>>> I installed the above beta version this evening on Red Hat 7.1 earlier 
>>> this evening, just after installing sendmail 8.13.8.  See details of 
>>> configuration below (you may notice that it is using Sys::Syslog version 
>>> 0.01 - the current version does not compile on RH 7.1).
>>>
>>> The installation went fine, but I experienced the following error when 
>>> trying to start MailScanner:
>>>
>>> 	Can't locate Sys/Hostname/Long.pm in @INC . . .
>>>
>>> That was solved by installing Sys::Hostname::Long using cpan and it worked 
>>> fine after that.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'll take a look. What happened when the install.sh tried to install it?
>>     
>
> Nothing.  There were no errors in the installation log, which I have 
> copied to you separately.  However I see that with the list of modules to 
> be installed in the install.sh script there is nothing reported in the log 
> for modules after Getopt::Long, ie for:
>
> Time::HiRes     Time-HiRes      1.86    1       noarch
> Filesys::Df     Filesys-Df      0.90    1       noarch
> Net::IP         Net-IP          1.24    1       noarch
> Sys::Hostname::Long Sys-Hostname-Long 1.4 1     noarch
> Sys::Syslog     Sys-Syslog      0.17    1       noarch
>
> The next entry in the install log is for the tnef decoder.
>
> In my case I have the following versions of the above modules now 
> installed:
>
> Time::HiRes		1.86 (I don't know when this was installed)
> Filesys::Df		0.92 (which I had to install manually when 
> 			upgrading to 4.54.6)
> Net::IP			missing
> Sys::Hostname::Long	1.4 (after installing it manually)
> Sys::Syslog		0.01 (the install script has never attempted to 
> 			upgrade this module)
>
> It does look as if there could be a problem with the install script
> because I remember when installing 4.50.10-1 at the beginning of the year
> I had to install a whole bunch of Perl modules (eg DBI, SQL-Lite)
> manually at that time too.
>  
>   
>>> You have very kindly included a new facility for providing separate 
>>> reports for messages and attachments which have been blocked or 
>>> quarantined due to user specified size restrictions.  I have done some 
>>> testing on both oversize messages and attachments, and am pleased to 
>>> report that it works exactly as intended for attachments, giving a report 
>>> such as:
>>>
>>> 	MailScanner: Attachment is too large: 154303 bytes
>>>
>>> However in the case of oversize messages, the report is just:
>>>
>>> 	MailScanner: Message is too large
>>>
>>> with no indication of the size of the message that has been quarantined.  
>>> Would it be possible to include the size in that case as well?  That would 
>>> be very helpful for people who don't want to unquarantine a message that 
>>> is far too large for them to handle.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'll take a look and see. I can only think that there was some good 
>> reason why I couldn't do it.
>>     
Julian,

I installed 4.56.1-1 yesterday and I also noticed problems with the 
installation of Perl modules:
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
        file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Temp.pm from install of 
perl-File-Temp-0.16-1 conflicts with file from
package perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4
        file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-File-Temp-0.16-1 conflicts with file f
rom package perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
        file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Syslog.pm 
from install of perl-Sys-Syslog-0.17-1
 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4
        file 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so 
from install of perl-Sys-S
yslog-0.17-1 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4

In the following output you can see that File::Temp is still at version 
0.14 and Sys::Syslog at version 0.08:
/usr/sbin/MailScanner -v
Running on
Linux ... 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux
This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)

This is MailScanner version 4.56.1
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.14    Archive::Zip
1.03    Carp
1.119   Convert::BinHex
1.00    DirHandle
1.05    Fcntl
2.73    File::Basename
2.08    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.06    File::Path
0.14    File::Temp
0.90    Filesys::Df
1.35    HTML::Entities
3.54    HTML::Parser
2.37    HTML::TokeParser
1.21    IO
1.10    IO::File
1.123   IO::Pipe
1.71    Mail::Header
3.05    MIME::Base64
5.420   MIME::Decoder
5.420   MIME::Decoder::UU
5.420   MIME::Head
5.420   MIME::Parser
3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
5.420   MIME::Tools
0.11    Net::CIDR
1.08    POSIX
1.77    Socket
1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
0.08    Sys::Syslog
1.86    Time::HiRes
1.02    Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
0.17    Convert::TNEF
1.809   DB_File
1.12    DBD::SQLite
1.50    DBI
1.08    Digest
1.01    Digest::HMAC
2.33    Digest::MD5
2.10    Digest::SHA1
0.44    Inline
0.17    Mail::ClamAV
3.001000        Mail::SpamAssassin
1.998   Mail::SPF::Query
0.18    Net::CIDR::Lite
1.24    Net::IP
0.55    Net::DNS
0.31    Net::LDAP
1.94    Parse::RecDescent
missing SAVI
2.42    Test::Harness
0.47    Test::Simple
1.95    Text::Balanced
1.35    URI

Denis

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