MailScanner Block Local Email

Administrator for email server that used MailScanner as the spam and virus email filtering need to check this setting inside /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf

Spam List =

It should not contain ORDB.

Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/2124224

My MailScanner setting

Spam List = spamhaus-ZEN spamcop.net NJABL


Spamhaus
http://www.spamhaus.org/

Spamcop
http://www.spamcop.net/

Njabl
http://www.njabl.org/

MailScanner is only avaliable with the XS version

When you are not sleeping doing migration. At this time of the hour. The final step of restarting the MailServer. This error came out. Haiya... I want to sleep maaa. (5.20am MYT).

root@mail1 backup-migration]# service MailScanner start
Starting MailScanner daemons:
incoming postfix: [ OK ]
outgoing postfix: [ OK ]
MailScanner: is only avaliable with the XS version at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
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 79.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
[ OK ]

Search with Google. It's said to upgrade perl module Scalar-List-Utils. I'm using Centos 5 that used perl 5.8.8 with Scalar::Utils build in.

The solution that I used is to upgrade Perl-Archive-Zip 1.20 to 1.23.

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-Archive-Zip/

MailWatch For MailScanner GeoIp Database Permission Denied

MailWatch For MailScanner GeoIp Database Permission Denied

This problem happen when we want to update GeoIP Database (Tools/links) from MailWatch.

Need to edit geoip_update.php inside MailWatch web directory ( /var/www/html). Need to add LOCAL for the mysql LOAD

before

// Load the data
dbquery("LOAD DATA INFILE '".$base.'/'.$file2."' INTO TABLE geoip_country FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"'");


after

// Load the data
dbquery("LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '".$base.'/'.$file2."' INTO TABLE geoip_country FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"'");


MailScanner A Free Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter
http://www.mailscanner.info/

MailWatch for MailScanner is a web based front-end to MailScanner
http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/