MailScanner Installation Guide - Solaris/Other Unix

If you run into problems installing MailScanner, please ask for help on
the mailing list <../index.html#mailinglist>. Please ensure you include
your

    * Operating System and version
    * Perl version (Do "perl -v" to find out)
    * MailScanner version
    * SpamAssassin version
    * Installation info: rpm or tar, fresh install or update 


    Assumptions and Pre-requisites

For the purposes of this installation guide, it is assumed that it is
going to be installed on a server already running the sendmail package
and operating as some sort of an e-mail gateway. It must be capable of
listening on the SMTP port and delivering received messages approriately
for the user's site.

For example, at the author's site it has been installed on the e-mail
servers which correspond to all of the DNS MX records. In conjunction
with a firewall, which prevents incoming SMTP connections to any other
hosts, this effectively protects the entire site against viruses in any
incoming e-mail messages.

It is also assumed that the user has purchased a licenced copy of the
Sophos anti-virus package suitable for running on the system to be used.


    Overview

To install the MailScanner, there are 5 basic stages to go through:

   1. Configure Sendmail <sendmail.shtml>
   2. Install & configure Sophos <sophos.shtml>
   3. Install Perl and some modules <perl.shtml>
   4. Install MailScanner <mailscanner.shtml>
   5. Install the TNEF decoder <tnef.shtml>
   6. Configure MailScanner <conf.shtml> 

There are also

    * Useful scripts and config files <filesnscripts.shtml>
    * Hints for installing on Solaris 8 and/or gcc <gcc.shtml> 

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Julian Field <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/jkf>