New MailScanner Features

[Scott Silva]

Jay Chandler spake the following on 9/20/2007 3:29 PM:
> 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!
> 
I think that came in 4.63. Is the ports version that current?


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