[TriLUG] FW: MailScanner questions

[Douglas Ward]

One more quick observation:

MailScanner is set to scan the postfix hold queue every six seconds for
new messages.  When viewing the running processes I see MailScanner,
clamscan, and clamav-wrapper kick off but do not see anything regarding
BitDefender or SpamAssassin.  I have bitdefender specified as an
installed av package.  Shouldn't I see bdc and bitdefender-wrapper as
well in top when MailScanner is invoked? 


Douglas Ward
IT Director
NC Methodist Conference
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Ward 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:33 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: MailScanner questions

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  The update url is no longer active and I had to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