MailScanner --lint doesn't check Eicar virus - OK here!

[DAve]

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Julian Field wrote:
> 
>> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:41:04 +0000
>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: MailScanner --lint doesn't check Eicar virus - OK here!
>>
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>> I don't really want to upgrade the copy of MIME-tools I use to the
>> latest, as it now requires Perl 5.8. This will royally screw many of the
>> Solaris users out there who only have Perl 5.6 available.
>>
>> If anyone has any thoughts on this, I'm all ears...
> 
> As a longtime Solaris user (soon to be Redhat!) I have to agree with
> others here -- 5.6 is ancient.  If you can't be bothered to upgrade
> to Solaris 10 and/or build your own version of Perl, then you can't
> complain when you get left behind.  I don't even install Sun's perl
> from my Jumpstart setup, I install from the latest stable tarball.
> I've always thought of MailScanner as "roll your own" instead of canned.
> 

For some who can't install Solaris 10 due to hardware, I'd recommend
NetBSD. We have installed it on our old Solaris hardware and it runs
wonderfully.

DAve


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