Older version and huge problem

[Darren Walker]

Hi

We have tried in vain to update a Cobalt Qube 3 to the latest version of
Mailscanner without success. The Qube developed a problem and needed to be
re-installed. Originally Mailscanner and F-prot were running on it which
were installed about 2-3 years ago.
The problem is that we cannot update the version of perl without loosing the
GUI. We have completely reformatted and re-installed the whole qube from
fresh, and tried to install all the various perl modules by hand, but
whatever we do we cannot get mailscanner to run successfully, the output is
missing module x or y or z or some other problem. We have spent 4 days
trying to get it to work and basically given up. 

We have ended up re-installing version 3.271 on a fresh installation of the
Qube and it works except for a huge problem. The client has f-prot but the
version originally installed we are not sure of- but the new version gives
the following error

---------SNIP-------

Mar  9 10:48:30 qube in.qpopper[14592]: (v?) POP login by user "dscott" at
(192.9.200.147) 192.9.200.147
Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has changed!
F-Prot said this "Search: .". Please mail the author of MailScanner
Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has changed!
F-Prot said this "Action: Report only". Please mail the author of
MailScanner
Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has changed!
F-Prot said this "Files: "Dumb" scan of all files". Please mail the author
of MailScanner
Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has changed!
F-Prot said this "Switches: -ARCHIVE -PACKED -SERVER -OLD". Please mail the
author of MailScanner
Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Scanned 1 messages, 1737 bytes in 3
seconds---------SNIP-------

Is there anything we can do to sort this out Im not sure that mailscanner is
now running the virus scan correctly- or is it that it just cannot run
certain aspects of it. I don't know if I can download an older version of
f-prot.

Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks

Darren




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