Remove MailScanner

[Devon Harding]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14/03/2008, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the procedure in removing all traces of MailScanner.  I need to
> fix
> > this 'MailScanner: extracting attachments' issue, and the best way I
> know
> > right now is to reinstall.  Any help would be grateful
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Devon
> >
> Problem isn't so much MailScanner (that part is rather trivial,
> especially with the RPM install:-) as all the perl modules... It's not
> easy to "undo" the upgrades done by the install script. You'd have to
> go through the list (as found in the install package) and do whatever
> is appropriate for each... be that a forced downgrade... icky... or
> ... whatever.
> It is probably much less work to redo the install... Less risk you
> miss something:-).
> Then again, if your problems are due to using a bad set of update
> sources, mixing perl module sources (Jules package, some "bad" repo,
> some CPAN ...) then ... it might not help:-/. Then again, with a
> little ... attention, a few good sources and pretty much the mix
> above, you can have a very successful and workable setup, so it all
> depends...:)
>
>
You're right, I completely removed MailScannner (rpm -e mailscanner) as well
as all associated rpms as well as removing the MailScaner dir in /var/lib,
/etc and /var/spool and reinstalled.  The problem still exists.
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