Help needed with mailscanner

[Anthony Peacock]

>>>> a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk 8:51:19 pm 4/10/2006 >>>
>>>>> a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk 8:18:15 pm 4/10/2006 >>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Jon Miller wrote:
>>> For number 2 you need to be more explicit in what you mean by
>>> updates. The whole system you describe is made up of many components,
>>> pulled together by Mailscanner.  Each of these can be updated, but
>>> the method for each may be different.  Do you want to upgrade th
>>> various components to newer versions?  Do you want to make sure the
>>> virus checkers are updating their virus libraries?  Do you want to
>>> update the spam detection rules of SpamAssassin?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply: for now until a new system is put together and
>>> tested I want to make sure that the spam detection rules of
>>> SpamAssassin are up to date.  I can do the Sophos updates. Currently
>>> not interested in upgrading the MailScanner program.
>> This largely depends on what version you are running, run this from the 
>> command line:
>>
>> spamassassin -V
>>
>> Newer versions of SpamAssassin have a process called sa-update which 
>> downloads updated versions of the core SpamAssassin rules.
>>
>> There is also the add-on rules supplied by the SpamAssassin Rules 
>> Emporium (SARE) people http://www.rulesemporium.com/.  These rules can 
>> be updated using the RulesDuJour program.
>>
>> You might also get better help if you ask your question on the 
>> spamassasin-users list which is just as friendly and helpful as this 
>> list.  http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists 
> 
> Jon Miller wrote:
>  > mail:/# spamassassin -V
>  > SpamAssassin version 3.0.3
>  >   running on Perl version 5.8.4
>  >
> 
> The latest version of SpamAssasin is 3.1.5.  I would suggest that you 
> upgrade and activate sa-update.
> 
> How you upgrade really depends on how it was installed in the first place.
> 
> Julian produces a very useful combined installation package that 
> installs the latest versions of MailScanner, ClamAV and SpamAssassin in 
> one go.
> 
> But you can get very screwy results if you try to upgrade by a different 
> method than the one you used in the first place.  Do you know how this 
> was installed?  What OS are you on?
> 

Jon Miller wrote:
 > mail:/# uname -a
 > Linux mail 2.4.25-bf2.4-lit #2 Tue Feb 24 16:40:45 WST 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
 > mail:/# cat /etc/debian_version
 > 3.1
 >
 > I suspect that Mailscanner, Mailwatch, Perl and Sophos are on the 
same server and php, mysql is on another server (RH7).
 >
 > Jon
 >
 >

This is where I probably have to bow out.  The chances are that these 
were installed using some form of package manager (RPM, apt-get, etc), 
someone with more experience of Debian will need to help with that.

-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
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