New Clam, Old, Mailscanner, Ancient Kernel

[Martin.Hepworth]

Culley

Mailscanner v3 had NOT been supported for many years....

I'd start with installing mailscanner v4.latest as fresh install and go from there..

You don't mention how much email (number of and volume), but 1GB per CPU core is recommended due to SA being a real memory hog!

Clamd works nice for many people and is supported in the latest MS version.

As for spam - more than likely SA 3.2.3 WITH the SARE rules etc will really make a difference..

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Culley Morrow
> Sent: 21 August 2007 01:07
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: New Clam, Old, Mailscanner, Ancient Kernel
>
> Howdy folks, I've got a bit of a dilemma here. I've taken over admin for
> an aging Debian 3.0 server partly morphed to 4.0. By partly I mean it is
> still using the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Way, way, out of date. The
> upshot is we are planning to replace it in the vaguely near future once we
> decide what groupware package to put in it's place.
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> I'll list out the software versions below and I need a bit of assistance
> making them work for now. I know all I need to do is upgrade the kernel to
> 2.6 and it all works, but I'd like to get them functioning "As-Is" and
> then do the upgrade so I have something working to fall back on. Clam AV
> is currently shut off since clamd as a service was so slow.
>
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> Kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4
>
> Mailscanner 3.27.1-1
>
> Clam AV 0.90.1-3etch3
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> Spam Assassin 2.64-1
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> Currently we are inundated with mass spam and I need to get some AV in
> place, be it Clam or another GNU/GPL/"free as in beer"-ware. I need a hand
> here if anyone wants to chime in.
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> ~={o}=~
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> Culley Morrow
> IT Manager
> Geneva Woods Pharmacy
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