Topic: email virus scanning

[Andrew Rosenau]

I've been researching the forums and the net. I am looking for free antivirus scanning solution that will scan my email in realtime with up to date definitions--scanning of I-bays would also be nice.--What should i be looking into?

[Arkman]

Look into ClamAV.
There are how-to's available for installing and configuring it on SME. Search the forums and you will find what you are looking for.

[Andrew Rosenau]

Thanks, so Clam does do realtime scanning of E-mail, what I have read is a little confusing so I will now look more into the Howto's for Clam

[Bill Talcott]

http://www.pagefault.org/howto/amavis_clam.shtml is what you want. Damien recently updated his site, so older links might not work...

[Andrew Rosenau]

Thank you I follewed the directions on the site you posted Bill, however when i tried to install the "perl-MailTools" rpm i got the following response.

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Address.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.5
0-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Cap.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50-1
conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Field.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50-
1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Field::AddrList.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailT
ools-1.50-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Filter.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50
-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Header.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50
-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Internet.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.
50-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Mailer.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50
-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Send.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50-1
 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Util.3pm.gz from install of perl-MailTools-1.50-1
 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1

Being a Nebwie to linux it appears that i already have a version of perl-MailTools installed but I do not know what I should after recieving this message. A search of these forums hasn't turned up anything for me.

[gavin]

Try run

rpm -e Perl-Mailtools    (nothing after that) from a # prompt to remove the older version , Then rerun the script , All it means is that you had and older version loaded and you need to unload it before loading the new version, Got caught myself.

Regards,
Gavin
Andrew Rosenau wrote:
>
> Thank you I follewed the directions on the site you posted
> Bill, however when i tried to install the "perl-MailTools"
> rpm i got the following response.
>
> Preparing...              
> ########################################### [100%]
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Address.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.5
> 0-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Cap.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50-1
> conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Field.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50-
> 1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Field::AddrList.3pm.gz from
> install of perl-MailT
> ools-1.50-1 conflicts with file from package
> perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Filter.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50
> -1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Header.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50
> -1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Internet.3pm.gz from install
> of perl-MailTools-1.
> 50-1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Mailer.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50
> -1 conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Send.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50-1
>  conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Mail::Util.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-MailTools-1.50-1
>  conflicts with file from package perl-MailTools-1.40-1
>
> Being a Nebwie to linux it appears that i already have a
> version of perl-MailTools installed but I do not know what I
> should after recieving this message. A search of these forums
> hasn't turned up anything for me.

[Andrew Rosenau]

Thank you--that worked perfectly now i can finish installing Clam

[Charlie Brady]

gavin wrote:
>
> Try run
>
> rpm -e Perl-Mailtools    (nothing after that) from a # prompt
> to remove the older version , Then rerun the script , All it
> means is that you had and older version loaded and you need
> to unload it before loading the new version

OTOH, you could "upgrade" the RPM, rather than "install" it.

rpm -U perl-Mailtools-.....

Charlie

[gavin]

Thanks Charlie,

Didn't think of that way, I was using the install.sh and it downloads and installs rather than updates.

Thanks for the input,

Gav