[TriLUG] MailScanner questions

[Douglas Ward]

I have set up a Mandrake - Postfix - MailScanner - ClamAV - BitDefender - SpamAssassin e-mail gateway server (whew!).  Here are two questions that I have run into:

1) I have installed the free BitDefender 7.0 rpm and have noticed the following things.  The update url is no longer active and I had to change it to an ftp site.  I can manually download and update cumulative.zip and daily.zip but cannot get the auto update feature to work properly.  It failes with the following error:

[root at barnabus bdc]# bdc --update
BDC/Linux-Console v7.0 (build 2490) (i386) (Dec 10 2003 16:11:35)
Copyright (C) 1996-2003 SOFTWIN SRL. All rights reserved.

Error: can't find update dll

I have checked the bdc.ini file and changed UpdateHTTPLocation to reference the ftp location.  Is there some other change I need to make?  I can't seem to find anything on the Internet that is helpful and BitDefender's knowledge base doesn't seem to address it either.  This brings me to question number two:

2) Do I need to worry about this?  Does MailScanner automatically update the av databases for both ClamAV and BitDefender?  I have set up a cron job to update ClamAV by running freshclam and have been manually updating BitDefender by downloading and extracting the zip files from their ftp site.  My preference is to allow MailScanner to manage the updating but am unsure of where to configure it.

Any advice would be most appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Douglas Ward
Director of Information Technology
NC Methodist Conference
1307 Glenwood Ave.
Raleigh, NC 27605
Work: (919) 832-9560 ext. 227
Fax: (919) 834-7989