MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.67.6 released

[Brendan Pirie]

For fedora, try

zlib
zlib-devel

And for future reference, "yum search" and "yum provides" and other yum 
options can provide a means of locating necessary packages based on 
files/libraries needed.

Brendan

Mike W wrote:
> I have neither
> 
>     libz
>     libz-devel
> 
> nor are they a part of Fedora. Are these a normal part of the distros? 
> Are these perl modules?  There is a perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.12
>  and perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.
> 
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>> Mike W wrote:
>>> I'm a non-guru, so please let me know when I've made a mistake.
>>> I've been unable to get MailScanner to use any anti-virus except for
>> ClamAV.
>>
>>> With that in mind, I deleted MS 4.66.5-3 and downloaded 4.67.6.
>>> I got compile failure in two  modules. perl-Archive-Zip and
>>> Perl-Storable. Install.sh continued and appeared to install
>>> MailScanner.  However, at runtime I get the following error:
>>> [root at cygni MailScanner-4.67.6-1]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart
>>> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>>>          MailScanner:                                      [FAILED]
>>>          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>> Waiting for MailScanner to die gracefully  dead.
>>> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>>>          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>>>          MailScanner:        is only avaliable with the XS version at
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
>>> Compilation failed in require at
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 11.
>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 11.
>>> Compilation failed in require at
>>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
>>> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 80.
>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 80.
>>>                                                            [  OK  ]
>>> I downloaded perl-Archive-Zip from the Fedora site, re-ran the install
>>> script and still have the same errors.  Running install.sh -nodeps makes
>>> no change.
>> Run the following 2 commands and post their entire output here:
>> MailScanner --debug
>> MailScanner --lint
>> The first command, if there is no mail in the queue, will eventually
>> reach a point where it says it is building a batch of messages and will
>> go no further, at which point you need to thump Ctrl-C to quit it.
>> MailScanner --lint will run to completion.
>>
>> I think you will get an error message (or more) immediately from both of
>> the commands, and we need to see all the error output.
>>
>> You may well have a library missing. Do you have both of these RPMs
>> installed
>>     libz
>>     libz-devel
>> If not, then install both of them. Compress-Zlib won't work without them.
>>
>>> Anyone point me toward fixing this other than backing out perl and
>>> starting all over again?
>> Don't do that :-(
>>
>> Jules
>>
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