MailScanner is an open source anti-virus and anti-spam filter for email servers. The anti-virus and anti-spam portion is delegated to third party applications. This article describes how to install MailScanner.

Install RPMforgeThe installation requires some packages found in RPMforge so make sure it is available in your system. Learn how to add the RPMforge repository.

Getting MailScanner

Firefox
1. Click the globe icon at the top near the System menu to launch the Firefox web browser.
 
If an error occurs, you probably did not install the Graphical Internet package. You can add it now using the Package Manager tool.
MailScanner download2. In the address box, type in http://www.mailscanner.info/downloads.html and press Enter. Download the stable version for RedHat, Fedora and Mandrake Linux.

Installing MailScanner

Extract MailScanner1. The MailScanner source code should now be on your desktop. Right click the newly downloaded file and click Extract Here.
MailScanner Folder2. After extracting, a MailScanner folder should be found on your Desktop. Right click the MailScanner folder and click Open in Terminal.
Yum perl dependencies3. In the terminal window, type in all the command below (in one line) to install the required Perl modules from the RPMforge repository. 
yum install perl-Archive-Zip 
perl-DBD-SQLite
perl-Filesys-Df 
perl-Net-CIDR perl-OLE-Storage_Lite 
perl-Sys-Hostname-Long
MailScanner Install4. Finally, type in the command below to install MailScanner. 
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck mailscanner*
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Posted on 4/23/2007 and last updated on 11/7/2009
Filed under CentOS 5 , MailScanner , Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5