Mailscanner warnings

[Martin.Hepworth]

Hi

Looks like mailscanner is sending parameters the clamscan it doesn't understand.

You may wish to switch to clamd or clammodule as a faster alternative which should also solve this problem.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of AlxFrag
> Sent: 15 February 2008 09:32
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner warnings
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
> 	-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 	Hash: SHA1
>
> 	What does
> 	MailScanner --lint
> 	say?
>
> 	AlxFrag wrote:
>
>
> 		Hi,
>
> 		i'm using mailscanner v. 4.66.5-3. My logs file is full of
> warnings
> 		like shown below:
>
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: Virus and Content
> 		Scanning: Starting
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--unzip
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--jar
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--tar
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--tgz
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--deb
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--max-ratio
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--tempdir
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--recursive (-r)
> 		Feb 14 10:36:45 posidon MailScanner[27874]: WARNING: Ignoring
> option
> 		--unrar
>
>
> 		Is there any way i can stop that?
>
> 		Thanks,
>
> 		Alex
>
>
>
> 	Jules
>
> 	- --
> 	Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
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> 	PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
>
>
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> 	Version: PGP Desktop 9.8.0 (Build 2158)
> 	Comment: (pgp-secured)
> 	Charset: ISO-8859-1
>
> 	wj8DBQFHtEtpEfZZRxQVtlQRAkhlAJ9Of82becRsHgDMmWrVyfvJaVFuOACdFnhK
> 	3Hg59laQALA1YGkA4DDZoVc=
> 	=lWdI
> 	-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>
> where should i give
>
> MailScanner --lint?
>
> :)




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