New MailScanner Features

[Jay Chandler]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Jay Chandler spake the following on 9/20/2007 2:42 PM:
>> The new version of MailScanner has a few nifty features that I like-- 
>> particularly the watermarking.
>>
>>
>> The issue I'm having is in getting the phishing bad list updated via 
>> cron.  I build Mailscanner from the FreeBSD ports tree, and until 
>> today didn't realize there were cron scripts living in 
>> /usr/local/libexec that did useful things, like updating the virus 
>> scanners.
>>
>> I don't see a script in there for updating the bad list, nor can I 
>> find a reference to one anywhere.  Has this just not been written yet, 
>> or did the port maintainer miss something?
>>
> There should be something like update_phishing_sites called from cron 
> every day. Maybe the maintainer hasn't added the cron scripts yet.
> 

Yeah, it's there, but it's solely targeting the whitelist, not the 
blacklist.

Does someone have a copy of an update script that does what it's 
supposed to do that I can beat together, then submit as a patch?

I'm rather surprised that the cron files aren't referenced in any of the 
installation procedure on FreeBSD-- I've been running MailScanner for 
almost a year now, and just discovered this aspect of things!

-- 
Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ
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