Feedback on MailScanner 4.56.1-1 beta
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 25 11:31:25 IST 2006
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That is what I would expect to happen. RPM won't overwrite a file owned
by another package unless forced to (which I don't like doing).
Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> 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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