thnks for your advice

[Julian Field]

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simon wrote:
> Thank you guys Julian and gleen
> i really do apprecite your help and now my MailScanner is working
> beautifully..
>
> 1) but i would like to know how do i really test my installltion of MS for
> through spam dtection n virus scanning.
> since this is a test system and i have jus one user created for testing mails
>   
Look up www.eicar.org. This is a test virus which all scanners 
recognise, but which is a totally harmless program. There is also a test 
spam called GTUBE which comes with SpamAssassin, which will get a very 
high score from SpamAssassin.
> 2) also how do i know if mailscanner is using clamd for virus scanning
>   
MailScanner --lint
will tell you quite a bit.
> 3) also i installed the jules package of spamassassin+ clamav
> but the clamav package is in logs says
> WARNING: Local version: 0.91 Recommended version: 0.91.1
> could i jus download the latest rpm and jus use rpm -Uvh clam*** to
> upgrade it
>   
No. Download the latest version of my package and install that over the 
top, which will give you 0.91.1.
>
> appreciate if u cd let me know
>
> Regards
>
> simon
>
>
>   

Jules

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