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