MailScanner: New website feature

[Ugo Bellavance]

Alex Pimperton wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Just a quick note to let you all know about a new useful page on
>> www.mailscanner.info <http://www.mailscanner.info>.
>>
>> http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html
>>
>> There is an indexed list of every configuration option you can set,
>> including details about it such as whether it can take a ruleset, its
>> default value, a detailed description of its purpose, and so on.
>>
> This is excellent, thanks.
> 
> Along the same lines, is it in anyway possible to have something similar
> for the messages mailscanner outputs to syslog with a description of how
> severe the error is?
> 
> I'm getting a lot of false positives for logcheck/logwatch but I don't
> want to hack in my own regexps for fear of missing a "Mailscanner will
> blow up the server in 10,9,8..." sometime around 7am on a weekday.

For logwatch, I suggest you upgrade to the latest version and use the
CVS mailscanner file.  I do this with many servers and it works well.
Just think of upgrading your logwatch mailscanner file when you upgrade.