Beta release 4.61.1

[Rick Cooper]

Go through the list and you will see I converted this (I'm not the original
sender) either two or three times but Julian seems to use the original
everytime he replies ;-)

What really sucks is most of those mails look like standard Outlook Express
stationary so they could just check off the always send as plain text on
their list address and it would never happen |-(

Rick 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Andrew MacLachlan
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:19 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Beta release 4.61.1
> 
> I've got no strong feelings on this, but I do feel strongly 
> about html emails in mailing lists... (converted back to plan 
> text....)
> :-)
> 
> -Andy
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Rick Cooper
> Sent: 05 June 2007 14:45
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: RE: Beta release 4.61.1
> 
>  
> 
> [Rick Cooper] 
>  It would be possible to add an option to restart the daemon 
> if a problem was
> encountered however I leave that up to Julian as it would 
> require runningthe hosts init script and I don't know if that 
> is something he would want todo. However if clamd has a 
> problem your logs will note this and you could certainly set 
> up a script to run in cron to look for MailScanner 
> clamderrors and notify you. I personally monitor all my 
> important daemons fortrouble and I have a script that PINGS 
> clamd that runs from cron. I reallyhaven't had problems with 
> clamd for at least a year and I never restart it.I only have 
> redhat/centos/fedora based distros though. 
> I'm not getting into the market for writing clamd monitoring 
> scripts, I believe there are already some out there.
> If you want to rely on clamd, it's up to you to ensure it's 
> running reliably.
> 
> 
> 
> [Rick Cooper] 
> I agree completely. I think MailScanner calling external init 
> scripts would be bad given it's not generally running as root 
> so one would have to give the MailScanner 
> user access to the script and I just don't know about how I 
> would like that from a security standpoint. I think any 
> responsible SysOp should be monitoring all the 
> important daemons with the ability to restart and notify in 
> case of issues, including MailScanner. Besides even if you 
> use clamscan, clamdscan or ClamAVModule if 
> sig database get's hosed you are going to have a problem and 
> you need to be watching the logs for issues anyway.
>  
> Rick 
> 
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