Mailscanner on Freebsd

[Julian Field]

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Sorry, didn't mean to insult the FreeBSD community. I didn't look hard 
enough for instructions on how to use the port, so misunderstood the way 
things are done on that platform. I'm a bit off a *BSD newbie and should 
have watched my words rather more carefully.

Sorry about that, now I understand the how and why.

Jules.

P.S. Been testing some code today which should give you a nice surprise 
when it is released. It relies on the stupidity of bad people, and 
appears to work well so far :-)

Drew Marshall wrote:

> On 2 Jan 2006, at 18:45, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Need to install Mail::SPF::Query
>>
>> Install the following:
>> make install name=clamav
>> make install name=p5-Mail-ClamAV
>> make install name=p5-DBI
>> make install name=p5-Net-Ident
>>
>> You need to make all the queue directories by hand and rename all  
>> the silly .sample files freebsd seems to use, which just makes life  
>> harder for you.
>>
>> Start by getting the modules installed.
>> /usr/local/libexec/MailScanner/MailScanner -v
>> shoulud produce everything installed except Mail::ClamAV, Net::LDAP  
>> and SAVI, they aren't needed.
>> Then hunt /usr/local for every ".sample" file and rename them so  
>> they don't end in that.
>> mkdir -p /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>> mkdir /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>>
>> That should be enough to get you started.
>>
>> If you could document what you do and add it to the wiki at  
>> wiki.mailscanner.info that would be *REALLY* helpful for other people.
>
>
> I have MailScanner running on FreeBSD 6 boxes with out problem. As I  
> understand (From the FBSD site) 6 is the current production release.  
> They regard everything else as 'legacy'.
>
> The 'silly' .sample files are there to stop any existing files being  
> automatically over written when the port is updated but if you make  
> sure you don't run make clean after installation, JP has kindly added  
> a load of text that describes how to rename the .sample files to  
> working copies (For the reports, and auto update scripts and the  
> wrapper scripts and a MailScanner.conf if this is a new install). If  
> you have MS running on another machine with a MailScanner.conf file  
> you would like to use, just drop a copy in to /usr/local/etc/ 
> MailScanner (Make this) before you run the port installation and you  
> will find the port install will upgrade your MailScanner.conf  
> automatically as well. In this same directory you will find some  more 
> .sample files, which you can either remove the .sample ending if  you 
> don't have copies or diff them if this is an upgrade (Hence them  
> being installed as .sample) and delete them if not required.
>
> You will need to make the queue files as the port doesn't know which  
> MTA you will be using and you will also need to rename the start up  
> scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, where you will also find a start up  
> called mta.sh.sample which you can use to start your Exim or Sendmail  
> MTA.
>
> HTH
>
> Drew
>

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