This is a novice type question, being that I haven't done much research on this
question. As I understand it, ASP and PHP pages must be read by the server software
and processed as it is sent to the browser client, while HTML is simply transferred
as-is. Does the extra processing of ASP and PHP pa
Can anyone direct me to a proper resource (FAQ, Man, How-To) for any information
on mirroring email accounts on multiple mail servers? We have several dial-up
POPs each with a Radius/Sendmail server. We are looking at upgrading our
capabilities for virtual domain hosting and would like to have the
As I am a relative novice system administrator, perhaps someone more
experienced can guide me to the proper way of securely invoking a script on
a remote server. We have two facilities presently, with most of our
equipment in our main office. I am attempting to automate account
maintenance and wou
Thanks to all for the guidence. My application is to permit infrequent entry
and updates of dial-up and email clients records for Radius authentication
and (presently) Sendmail servers. I eventually want to provide a secure
web-based interface that accesses a common SQL customer database. I have
a
After a major site update amounting to renaming the public_html folder,
and tightening up security by removing global permissions, I am now
getting errors trying to execute Perl scripts through Apache. All the
HTML files are properly displayed with rights 640 and ownership assigned
to user.www-dat
A while back, we had a mail server crash and when hurrying to rebuild the server,
the tech who did the work did not size the /home and /var partitions adequately.
We essentially need to swap the space which those partitions occupy. Is there any
proper way of doing this with the ext2 file systems b
A short while ago, my web server went offline and is now reporting a
superblock error on /dev/hdc1 (/var) and suggests using e2fsck -b 8193
option. I do not know enough about the ext2 system to know what super block
numbers to try. Can anyone suggest the correct numbers or how to find out?
This is
If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated. We
recently changed IP addresses in one of our facilities because of changes in
upline providers. Even after adding the new IP addresses to the sendmail
configurations (both with Linuxconf and manually) we get an error that we
This network has been driving me nuts for weeks and this is only making it
worse. Here are the extracts from the maillog file coming from my
workstation. It makes no difference if I use the HELO protocol, and there is
an PTR entry in the in-addr.arpa zone for this address block with my
workstation
Well, that does provide the FQDN of the machine locally, but not at the
remote mail server. Guess it's time to check the DNS issues.
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> This network has been driving me nuts for weeks and this is only making it
> worse. Here are the extracts from the maillog file comin
As a relative novice on Debian (and Linux in general), I am reasonably able
to configure packages on our server. However, I am having difficulty with
the dial-up functions of a Debian workstation. The modem is autodeteced by
the pppconfig utility, but when I try to use the dialer, I get an error
m
Can anyone tell me if RedHat has a package similar to dselect that will help keep
up with the security updates that are so easily maintained with dselect and
updates from security.debian.org?
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As usual, not given enough time to keep up on updating servers properly (two
Redhat and one NT), one of our servers has been infected by the Linux.Lion
virus. I keep my personal Debian system updated by dselect all the time, but
have not been able to migrate our existing Linux servers (set up befo
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> On 04 September 2001 03:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sep 03, 2001 at 08:54:21PM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote:
> > > ... one of our servers has been infected by the
> > > Linux.Lion virus. ...
> >
> > Huh? Linux.Lion? W
Can anyone shed any light on how to configure NT SNMP to find out how much
bandwidth these servers (and web sites if possible) are consuming? We just
got stuck with three servers, two of them NT one Mandrake, that we had to
colocate in our facility. We would like to be able to monitor the specific
I keep receiving the following error messages on my server console and in
the log files. Can anyone direct me to where on my system I need to check to
fix these problems and what package(s) are related?
kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for XF86_S3...
kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed
Thanks for all the support. The original memory was not that great, so I
decided to throw in another 128MB of memory and watch the logs for a while.
I am only running a dual-site web server with one being MRTG checking one
3640 router. I'm barely touching email, but X is running on that machine. I
The following message was received by our admin account after finding an
intrusion (followed by rotating shell account passwords). Can anyone tell me
how to find out what devices are referenced in this message?
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> User 501 tried to run dev 773 ino 278048 in place of d
Thankx. I did manage to find out which file they were trying to reference.
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What is the best way to protect specific daemons (inet and standalone like proftpd
and apache) from intrusion attempts? I am not that familiar with Linux firewalling
rules yet and am in the process of obtaining a comprehensive administrator's study
guide. I presently have hosts.deny with lines to
Can anyone point me in the direction to look for solutions to the below
connection problem? I've been attempting to configure Gnome-PPP for use with our
Internet service, but it does not seem to be working. When I attempt to connect
using a login "script" I am forced to cancel the connection and g
We have a couple sendmail servers that I have not had time to replace with
other mail packages. I have tried tightening anti-spam procedures as much as I
know, but how do you find information on getting rid of the ability for
spammers to use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?
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"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Gene Grimm wrote:
>
> > We have a couple sendmail servers that I have not had time to replace with
> > other mail packages. I have tried tightening anti-spam procedures as much as > I
> know, but how do you find
What is the best way to configure quotas in the /home file system (separate
partition) to ensure quotas are not exceeded on a server that hardly ever
reboots?
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I don't recall if I have seen anything on this list regarding the issue of
scanning messages for viruses as they are processed by a Linux-based mail
server. If there is such a package, where can I find information on this
such as the format for mail storage and configuration? Thanks for any
assist
Is there any information available anywhere about configuring Qmail for
distributed mail delivery with one Qmail system receiving as the Mail
eXchanger and relaying selective domains to specified remote Qmail POP
servers?
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Thanks alot. I will research this for best implementation. I am hoping to
create a mail server pool for failover. My only dilemma is DNS resolution of
mail server addresses.
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From: "Jeff Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gene Grimm" <[
I haven't been able to gleen much about Webmin yet
as to whether it can support automating common ISP activities distributed among
multiple servers. Does Webmin or any other package provide a means of logging
onto a centralized web site (for ISPÂ employees only) to add radius user
accounts, P
Does anyone have any information regarding whether
there is a utility to convert MS IAS radius logs to Cistron log format? If there
is no tool, is there a utility similar to radiusreport that will analyze IAS
radius log files?
Does anyone know of a open source package for providing access to a POP3
mail box via a web interface?
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"John Gonzalez, Tularosa Communications" wrote:
>
> We have been using squirrelmail and it is working great.
>
> http://www.squirrelmail.org
I thought squirrelmail required IMAP, or did I not see the POP3 support
notice on their web site. I checked the squirrelmail site earlier but
the requirem
We are trying to configure our new Postfix mail server to allow relay for a
new remote client. Our configuration file currently includes the following
directive in main.cf:
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/client_access,
reject_u
I don't recall if this has been asked before. Does anyone know of any
Linux package for maintaining ISP customer "account" information in a
database that can also process radius, POP3/IMAP, ftp account, and web
site creation and removal on the actual servers?
We need a package (and I would rather
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have sendmail without allowing SMTP
(non-local) access? We are migrating from an old RedHat sendmail server to a
new Debian Postfix server but need to leave the old server running for a
time. I still want to have logcheck mail the summary to our central mail
Thanks much for all the suggestions. After reading these suggestions, I
found that I can modify the 'sendmail' script in /etc/rc.d/init.d to turn
off the daemon option and set a specific queue time.
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What is the best resource to learn how to get started migrating to LDAP
from flat files?
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Can anyone point me the right direction to understand certain debug
messages? Each morning I see block beginning with "DEBUG: pg_" followed by
"rules", "views", "tables", and "indexes" then a list of stats. Is this a
swap daemon error message, or perhaps postgresql or some other package. I
have be
I have simple question that I can't find documented. I need to add basic
spam/virus filters to body_checks using regular expressions where the
line begins with a tab character. Using "\t" or "\s" doesn't seem to
work. Can anyone suggest the best way to handle this?
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Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> correct.
>
> \s and \t (and \d, \w, \b, and many others) are pcre (perl-compatible
> regular expressions) which are an extension of standard regexps.
>
> > If the map is a regexp style map, then you just use a tab instead of
> > \t.
>
> yep, and use "[[:space:]]" inst
I am trying to configure a new server with dual LAN cards, one Rtl8029 using
N2k-PCI kernel module and the other is a Network Everywhere NC100 which, I
believe, is supposed to use the Tulip driver module. How do I determine the
parameters I need to specify?
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Speaking as an ISP that has to deal with spam complaints from our clients,
most people consider it spam if it was unrequested -- thus the definition of
Unsolicited Commercial Email. It's bad enough to have to deal with junk ads
through snail mail, but now we have to deal with junk ads in electroni
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gene Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:24:57AM -0400, Gene Grim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> There are several projects which discuss a substitution of traditional
> Email with a more modern infrastructure, and I think it is time to
> spent effort on pushing this forward and stop loosing time with
> preventing what's inevitable - abuse of SMTP.
>
> Personall
Jason Lim wrote:
>
> Also note that Spamcop blocks points of origination... that is, afaik, it
> blocks the actual sender's IP.
>
> Now, if your IP was 111.222.111.222 and the spammer's (which is blocked by
> spamcop) is 111.222.111.223, then you would still not be affected, because
> only the s
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:33:37AM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote:
> [...]
> > Alot of people will resist this if it means replacing every mail server
> > on the Internet, or even just the mail software on every Internet mail
> > server. Thi
This may be a bit off-topic, but we have a client who attempting to use a
Congo router (unknown model) to access our Ascend 404x-based dial-up system.
The radius logs shows disconnect-cause of '35' which I tracked down to mean
"mpNullMessageTimeout: failed to receive a NULL MP message". Can anyone
From: "Auro Florentino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I think WEBMIN is more complete (has many modules, updates and contribs).
> They shows to customers the basic steps on writing their own modules.
>
> BTW, ISPMAN appears to be a very nice tool, but isnt in a production
> release, like WEBMIN, yet, i t
I am trying to find a perl script/utility to automate lookups of network
address block and contact information based on originating IP addresses. I
have written a script to analyze logcheck reports and attempt to extract
this information from a 'whois' system call dumped into an array for the
purp
> i think chpasswd is what your looking for.
> chpasswd user:pass
>
> on woody atleast its included in the passwd package
>
> > im wondering if there is any non-interactive way to set a user's
> > password...i need to do it through a scriptplease
Actually, I use Perl script with a shell s
Has anyone experienced a problem with OpenWebMail where it stops showing the
correct (virtual) email address for clients? I have OpenWebMail configured
to read from Postfix's virtual_maps file which was working just fine to
start with. Someone during the past week or so, the package is no longer
r
I am looking for recommendations for the best proxy/firewall package to use
for both small and mid-sized networks. We have a client that currently is
getting close to maxing out their assigned subnet and wants to implement an
internal proxy/firewall system based on Linux. What package would be
sim
Has anyone ever had problems with Postfix mailbox delivery combining two
messages into one? The specific cases typically involves spam and other
garbage mail where the next message is read as part of the garbage message
(see below). If so, can anyone suggest how to correct the problem so we
won't
The only spam filters currently used are the Postfix body_checks and
header_checks rejection filters. We do not presently have any external spam
controls on this server.
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From: "Sami Haahtinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:
I just updated the packages on my Potato-based server after the Woody-based
packages became stable over the weekend. The upgrade reported a possible
linking problem with the 2.2.17 kernel that the server is currently running.
I am looking at upgrading to the 2.4.18 kernel but this tells me I have
Maybe I'm on the wrong list with this one, but I've been trying all day to
have a PHP script open an htusers file then read in and authenticate the
username/password entered by the client. I can read the .htaccess file
(ignored by Apache for that directory) and extract the location of htusers.
Bot
From: "Todd Charron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I would much prefer the LSB to support .deb as an alternative then to
> have the rpm support provided by Debian be what "squeaks" it by for
> certification. After all, if you're getting support from an LSB
> certified tech they might just say "install
I am currently running these versions of the following packages:
Amavis-Postfix v. 20020515-11
SpamAssassin v. 2.20-1woody
MySQL v. 3.23.49-8
The /etc/default/spamassassin is configured to enable spamd with options
"-aqx" as per the readme files. I have the specified entries in
/etc/pr
Actually, I am also using Request-Tracker on that machine, and it has no
problems connecting to "localhost". I don't even see any indication of an
attempt to connect in the mysql.err log files.
From: "Gavin Hamill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I have restarted all daemons several times but /var/log/mys
After a suggestion to separate options for spamd startup (thanks again to
whoever that was), I see the SpamAssassin mysql user accessing the
'userpref' table.
646 Connect spamby@localhost on spamassassin
646 Query select preference, value from userpref where username =
'spamby' OR usern
I recently installed the clamav, spamassassin, amavis-postfix, and
oav-update packages on our mail server. Unfortunately, I keep getting a
message that the virus scanner does not function. Everything else is running
well, but when I try to run clamscan manually, it reports the following:
ERROR: he
Has anyone yet tried to combine using mod_vhost_alias and user directories?
I have a new web server that is configured for mod_vhost_alias but only two
of the web sites should permit access to user directories by the /~user
option. Can anyone suggest how to configure this where members.domain1.com
Are there any Perl modules that can help modify a configuration file for
Apache? I'm looking for a method to script addition of virtual web sites
(done through mod_vhost_alias) and setting throttle values for the directory
associated with that virtual host. Can anyone suggest a method of modifying
I am trying to script maintenance of our POP3 and FTP accounts, but would
prefer a Perl module rather than using calls to shell commands. Thus far I
haven't been able to find anything about such a Perl module. Can anyone
point me in the right direction?
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Can anyone point me in the right direction for resolving a locale problem
under X and GDM? Using the shell, the current locale is 'C' but when I open
apps in X (configured with Gnome Display Manager and Enlightenment), the
locale is somehow set as 'english'. I can't seem to find how to reset this
b
I've managed to get the configuration objects doing what I need with
Apache::Admin::Config except for two things. When I do obj->add_blank() it
doens't seem to add the blank lines nor does conf->save write the
configuration to the file. I can see what was created by doing a print
conf->dump_raw so
From: "Olivier Poitrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > ... obj->add_blank() doens't add the blank lines...
> > ... conf->save doesn't write the configuration to the file...
>
> Please tell me more about the version of AAC you are using, and cut
> and past me some code. I can't replicate the glitche.
>
I don't recall if I've seen this thread before, but I am curious if
there is a GPL package to allow Internet clients to "generate" a simple
personal home page through their web browser. I'm finishing up
configuration of an Apache server to be used primarily for our dial-up
and DSL clients' home
During the past couple of days I have noticed log entries showing that
spamassassin's daemon refused connections from spamc on our two mail
servers. Today, our local mail server was so bogged down I was forced to
reset it. When 'initd' got to spamassassin, the server just hung and would
not continu
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> ... When 'initd' got to spamassassin, the server just hung and would
> not continue the boot process. I waited for almost five minutes but it
> didn't time out or continue. ... I have not yet tried to simply
> turn off spamd in /etc/defaults/spamassassin but have one
I've been attempting to set up a server for hosting personal web sites for
our clients. We have several domain names that we use and don't want
accounts to overlap between virtual hosts should we add commercial sites to
this server. The only thing that doesn't work is automatically adding a
trailin
Has anyone used the phpWebSite package for client personal web page
development? If so, what is your opinion on its effectiveness and
friendliness?
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We have one Win2000 box and one WinNT 4 box left with the remainder of our
servers running Debian. Does anyone know if there is any sort of log
analysis routine similar to LogCheck for WinNT and 2000 so I can keep
apprised of problems and attempted hacks on the Windoze boxes?
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I have recently begun getting error messages from Postfix and other packages
reporting "too many files" error messages. Can anyone suggest where to check
on how many files can be open or adjust this limit if possible?
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> 4096 files open
> > simultaneously? That is what the max is in my older Debian install.
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> > > Gene Grimm wrote:
> > >> I have recently begun getting error messages from Postfix and other
> > >> packages
> > >
What is the Postfix main.cf configuration directive used to specify the
domain name for MAILER-DAEMON's outgoing error messages?
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We are a small local ISP with a mixture of Linux servers and an NT server. Most
of
our client web pages are currently hosted on the NT box. All of our email is
hosted by our main Linux box. How should an HTTP request to site labeled
domain.com be properly redirected to www.domain.com.
--
http://ww
> Your domain 'domain.com' has some dns-entry pointing to your http-server
> (possibly
> apache). The A-record for www.domain.com should refer to the same IP as
> domain.com.
> The rest is the configuration of your webserver, where you possibly have to
> specify
> www.domain.com as an alias for
Upon reviewing host configurations created by my predecessor, I
inherited a nightmare. DNS was misconfigured from the start, causing
dial-up clients to use a SMTP/POP3 hostname of "domain.com" instead of
"mail.domain.com". We need "domain.com" to resolve to the NT web server
for "http://domain.com"
> Upon reviewing host configurations created by my predecessor, I
> inherited a nightmare.
I almost forgot to mention, we have about 40-60 virtual domains hosted via for
both email and web services on these two machines. Is there some script that
will
handle this for all domains without having to
Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 01:07:52PM -0600, Kevin Blackham wrote:
> > From what I understand here, you need a simple webserver on the Linux
> > mail server (domain.com) that will redirect clients to www.domain.com,
> > at least until you can get the customer base reconfigured.
This is a novice type question, being that I haven't done much research on this
question. As I understand it, ASP and PHP pages must be read by the server
software
and processed as it is sent to the browser client, while HTML is simply
transferred
as-is. Does the extra processing of ASP and PHP p
Can anyone point me in the direction to look for solutions to the below
connection problem? I've been attempting to configure Gnome-PPP for use with our
Internet service, but it does not seem to be working. When I attempt to connect
using a login "script" I am forced to cancel the connection and ge
Is there a package available for converting Microsoft radius log files to a
format suitable for the free radiusreport analysis script?
We have a couple sendmail servers that I have not had time to replace with
other mail packages. I have tried tightening anti-spam procedures as much as I
know, but how do you find information on getting rid of the ability for
spammers to use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?
"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Gene Grimm wrote:
>
> > We have a couple sendmail servers that I have not had time to replace with
> > other mail packages. I have tried tightening anti-spam procedures as much
> > as > I
> know, but how do yo
What is the best way to configure quotas in the /home file system (separate
partition) to ensure quotas are not exceeded on a server that hardly ever
reboots?
Is there any information available anywhere about configuring Qmail for
distributed mail delivery with one Qmail system receiving as the Mail
eXchanger and relaying selective domains to specified remote Qmail POP
servers?
Thanks alot. I will research this for best implementation. I am hoping to
create a mail server pool for failover. My only dilemma is DNS resolution of
mail server addresses.
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From: "Jeff Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gene Grimm" <
I haven't been able to gleen much about Webmin yet
as to whether it can support automating common ISP activities distributed among
multiple servers. Does Webmin or any other package provide a means of logging
onto a centralized web site (for ISPÂ employees only) to add radius user
accounts, P
Does anyone have any information regarding whether
there is a utility to convert MS IAS radius logs to Cistron log format? If there
is no tool, is there a utility similar to radiusreport that will analyze IAS
radius log files?
We are trying to configure our new Postfix mail server to allow relay for a
new remote client. Our configuration file currently includes the following
directive in main.cf:
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/client_access,
reject_un
Has anyone experienced a problem with OpenWebMail where it stops showing the
correct (virtual) email address for clients? I have OpenWebMail configured
to read from Postfix's virtual_maps file which was working just fine to
start with. Someone during the past week or so, the package is no longer
re
I am looking for recommendations for the best proxy/firewall package to use
for both small and mid-sized networks. We have a client that currently is
getting close to maxing out their assigned subnet and wants to implement an
internal proxy/firewall system based on Linux. What package would be
simp
Has anyone ever had problems with Postfix mailbox delivery combining two
messages into one? The specific cases typically involves spam and other
garbage mail where the next message is read as part of the garbage message
(see below). If so, can anyone suggest how to correct the problem so we
won't l
The only spam filters currently used are the Postfix body_checks and
header_checks rejection filters. We do not presently have any external spam
controls on this server.
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From: "Sami Haahtinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:
I just updated the packages on my Potato-based server after the Woody-based
packages became stable over the weekend. The upgrade reported a possible
linking problem with the 2.2.17 kernel that the server is currently running.
I am looking at upgrading to the 2.4.18 kernel but this tells me I have t
Maybe I'm on the wrong list with this one, but I've been trying all day to
have a PHP script open an htusers file then read in and authenticate the
username/password entered by the client. I can read the .htaccess file
(ignored by Apache for that directory) and extract the location of htusers.
Both
Currently, for woody at least, it seems that this is done by a cron job
located in /etc/cron.daily
- Original Message -
From: "Andrew P. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Debian-Isp" ; "Jeremy C. Reed"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:18 AM
Subject: RE: webalizer stopped r
Some of our clients are reporting that they are getting virtually no mail.
Even when specific people tell them they have sent mail, these clients
receive nothing through the POP3 server (so it's apparently not getting to
their inbox).
Postfix is configured to use procmail as the delivery agent. Ac
Has anyone tried configuring the Amavis-Postfix package in Woody to use
ClamAV as the scanner engine? Would I be better off installing the Amavis
tarball rather than the Amavis-Postfix pacakge? To my knowledge thus far,
ClamAV is the only free virus scanner for commercial use other than the
Java-de
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