http://wiki.mailscanner.info/ 2008-10-21T01:40:01+01:00 http://wiki.mailscanner.info/ http://wiki.mailscanner.info/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-10-21T01:38:42+01:00 Mark Nienberg (marknienberg@66.117.142.70) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_virus:clamav:switch_to_rpm_clamd&do=diff1224549522 Reviewing comments for these settings is not a waste of time. Set up the Clamd-specific entries in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf to the same values as you use in /etc/clamd.conf. By default I *think* you can just leave them alone. But if you ... text/html 2008-10-07T13:30:34+01:00 Anthony Cartmell (fonant@217.155.35.95) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:related_software:management:mailwatch:tips:quarantine_reports&do=diff1223382634 Here’s a slightly modified quarantine_report.php that I use. It is sent daily, and includes only messages that were dated on the previous day (so it doesn’t matter what time of day this is run by cron). The other enhancement is to sort ... text/html 2008-09-19T14:55:07+01:00 Martin Hepworth (maxsec@80.241.69.18) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index&do=diff1221832507 Welcome to MailScanner’s Most Asked Questions. This is the the most concentrated source of information about MailScanner and its related applications. See the Table of Contents on the right for quick access. You can also use the search tool; ... text/html 2008-09-13T05:20:37+01:00 Jesse Jarrell (hitechwizard@70.165.27.200) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=custom_config:centos5&do=diff1221279637 Using your preset yum repository or a custom one... yum remove spamassassin yum install perl-Net-Ident perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Archive-Zip razor-agents perl-Archive-Tar perl-IO-Zlib \ perl-IP-Country perl-Net-Ident perl-IO-Socket-INET6 per... text/html 2008-08-30T16:27:12+01:00 Mikael Syska (syska@130.225.247.42) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:mailscanner_watermark_plugin_for_exchange_2007&do=diff1220110032 If you have more offsite Exchange 2007 installations and dont want to route all mail traffic to the MailScanner box itself to save bandwidth, this is the perfect solution. Information can be found here: http://ifyoudo.net/post/2008/08/07/MailScanne... text/html 2008-08-06T21:26:58+01:00 Jon Moore (thejonmoore@70.159.118.70) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:related_software:management:mailwatch:install&do=diff1218054418 MailWatch Installation is subjected to change depending on the version of the lastest release, so with that said always read the INSTALL file in the tarball. INSTALL file from MailScanner 0.5 MailWatch for MailScanner 0.5 - Installation Ins... text/html 2008-07-21T16:01:14+01:00 Craig Retief (craigretief@196.35.158.178) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:install_upgrade:upgrade:tar&do=diff1216652474 See the MAQ: Upgrade (TAR) ... text/html 2008-06-16T16:53:08+01:00 Neil Kay (linker3000@82.69.73.38) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_virus:bitdefender:install&do=diff1213631588 BitDefender is available freely to Linux, and in a beta release to FreeBSD version 4 or 5 systems. About the free version BitDefender is a commercial antivirus product (as with all such, it’s really a set of products for a variety of platf... text/html 2008-06-04T09:22:29+01:00 Ronny T. Lampert (rtl@212.114.200.66) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:how_to:release_quarantined_mail&do=diff1212567749 For the purposes of this, I’m assuming you have set up a single (safe!) postfix instance, with messages going to the HOLD queue, before being processed by MailScanner and sent to the INCOMING queue. You also need to be saving whole messages as... text/html 2008-05-22T16:45:52+01:00 Martin Hepworth (maxsec@80.241.69.18) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:exim:how_to:split_mails_per_recipient&do=diff1211471152 You can do this with an “incestuous” call to exim. Make this your first router: split: driver = accept domains = the.domains.you.want.to.do.this.for condition = ${if eq {$received_protocol}{split}{no}{yes}} transport = send_to_self no_v... text/html 2008-04-30T12:30:32+01:00 Rodney Green (reason@66.152.114.21) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=how_to_setup_mailscanner_on_ubuntu_8.04&do=diff1209555032 Installing MailScanner on Ubuntu Linux This guide is based on work produced by Mohammed Alli and his work is gratefully acknowledged. Remove Ubuntu’s MailScanner The setup of MailScanner distributed with Ubuntu is totally broken, as you may... text/html 2008-04-28T23:17:35+01:00 Scott Silva (scott_silva@63.110.242.126) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_spam:spamassassin:mcp&do=diff1209421055 If you are still using MCP (message content protection) with spamassassin 3.20 or greater, you will need to create a v320.pre file in the mcp directory with the following content: # Check - Provides main check functionality # loadplugin Mail::SpamA... text/html 2008-03-31T20:27:37+01:00 Julian Field (julesfm@86.153.217.22) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:tweaking:some_things_to_try_if_your_incoming_queue_is_running_slow&do=diff1206991657 I’ve found one of the best ways to gauge how well your MailScanner install is going is to look at the “processed in” messages in mail.log - this is NOT enabled by default. In MailScanner.conf set Log Speed = yes this will cause m... text/html 2008-03-19T23:12:51+01:00 Scott Silva (scott_silva@63.110.242.126) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_spam:spamassassin:julians_howto&do=diff1205968371 This is quoted verbatim from a message posted by Julian in mid-2007 to optimize spamassassin I thought I would write this up as a little HOWTO on using the SpamAssassin-recommended approach without having to use RulesDuJour at all. Firstly disabl... text/html 2008-03-19T22:24:19+01:00 Peter Bonivart (peter@83.252.190.235) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:install_upgrade:install:solaris&do=diff1205965459 You can of course manually install the tar dist on a Solaris system but it’s much easier to use the package provided by Blastwave. The Blastwave project maintains more than 1700 popular open source titles for Solaris 8/9/10 Sparc/x86 and they ... text/html 2008-03-07T22:13:26+01:00 Scott Silva (scott_silva@208.252.226.253) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=contrib_tools:mailscanner:back_and_restore&do=diff1204928006 Here is a simple script for backups before installing a new version and restoring the old if you have problems. I’m sure it can be improved, my bash scripting is functional not fashionable. #!/bin/bash # Fix the next few lines to point to th... text/html 2008-03-07T16:02:57+01:00 greg matthews (greg@192.171.172.12) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=contrib_tools:sendmail:purge_orphan_df&do=diff1204905777 clean up df files that occasionally get left behind under /var/spool/mqueue.in #!/bin/bash # clean up orphaned df* files in mqueue.in # no known cause for these files yet. /etc/init.d/MailScanner stop sleep 2 dir="/var/spool/mqueue.in" fi... text/html 2008-03-07T14:34:59+01:00 Alex Broens (alexb@62.2.214.114) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=contrib_tools:check_process_speed&do=diff1204900499 This requires: Edit MailScanner.conf Set Log Speed to: Log Speed = yes #!/bin/sh # Script that shows the time taken to process the last 10 batches tail -n 20000 /var/log/maillog | grep 'processed in' | tail -n 10 (adjust the 20000 for the size... text/html 2008-03-07T12:57:45+01:00 Ugo Bellavance (ugob@74.59.221.180) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=contrib_tools:sendmail:check_mailq_in&do=diff1204894665 #!/bin/bash # Script that does the equivalent of 'mailq', but based on the content # of the incoming queue /usr/bin/mailq -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in ... text/html 2008-02-28T23:51:51+01:00 Vlad Mazek (vladmazek@97.100.146.252) http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:clustering_mailscanner_with_centos_and_pirahna&do=diff1204242711 So your SPAM load has outgrown your single server deployment? Don’t want to deal with multiple MX records? Clustering is your friend, and with CentOS and Piranha you can deploy it quickly and easilly (not to mention for free) and scale your Ma...