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This page is at best a very rough guide to the potential efforts to get MailScanner included in Fedora. While MailScanner itself is relatively simple, there are a number of dependencies and add-on modules that may involve significant work.

SIG Mailing List

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner-sig

Significant mailing list threads to read

http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091460.html http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091469.html http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091496.html

List of MailScanner RPMs Required and their Status Within Fedora

Package Name Version Provided by MS Minimum Version Required Packaged for Fedora Version in Fedora Notes
mailscanner 4.76.25-1.noarch.rpm The mailscanner rpm prepackaged scripts. In Fedora this needs to be repackaged to include documentation and scripts.
perl-Archive-Zip 1.16-2.src.rpm
perl-bignum 0.23-1.src.rpm
perl-Compress-Zlib 1.41-2.src.rpm
perl-Convert-BinHex 1.119-3.src.rpm
perl-Convert-TNEF 0.17-2.src.rpm
perl-DBD-SQLite 1.21-1.src.rpm
perl-DBI 1.607-1.src.rpm
perl-Digest-HMAC 1.01-1.src.rpm
perl-Digest-MD5 2.36-3.src.rpm
perl-Digest-SHA1 2.11-2.src.rpm
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker 6.50-2.src.rpm
perl-File-Spec 0.82-3.src.rpm
perl-Filesys-Df 0.90-2.src.rpm
perl-File-Temp 0.20-4.src.rpm
perl-Getopt-Long 2.38-2.src.rpm
perl-HTML-Parser 3.56-2.src.rpm
perl-HTML-Tagset 3.03-2.src.rpm
perl-IO 1.2301-4.src.rpm
perl-IO-stringy 2.110-2.src.rpm
perl-MailTools 2.04-2.src.rpm
perl-Math-BigInt 1.89-1.src.rpm
perl-Math-BigRat 0.22-1.src.rpm
perl-Mime-Base64 3.07-3.src.rpm
perl-Mime-tools 5.427-2.src.rpm
perl-Net-CIDR 0.13-1.src.rpm
perl-Net-DNS 0.65-1.src.rpm
perl-Net-IP 1.25-2.src.rpm
perl-OLE-Storage 0.16-2.src.rpm
perl-Pod-Escapes 1.04-2.src.rpm
perl-Pod-Simple 3.05-2.src.rpm
perl-Scaler-Lists-Utils 1.19-3.src.rpm
perl-Storable 2.16-3.src.rpm
perl-Sys-Hostname-Long 1.4-2.src.rpm
perl-Sys-Syslog 0.27-1.src.rpm
perl-Test-Harness 2.64-3.src.rpm
perl-Test-Pod 1.26-2.src.rpm
perl-Test-Simple 0.86-2.src.rpm
perl-TimeDate 1.16-4.src.rpm
perl-Time-HiRes 1.9707-3.src.rpm
tnef 1.4.5-1.i386.rpm

x86_64.rpm

Potential Problem Packages that might require some perl packaging expertise

  • perl-Compress-Zlib-1.41-2
  • perl-Storable-2.16-3

http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-May/091510.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/05/msg124890.html


Contributors willing to work to make this happen