Manual Installation

The following instructions spell out how to manually install Qmail-Scanner on your system:

cp qmail-scanner-queue.pl /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
chown qmailq:qmail /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl
chmod 4755  /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl #(i.e same perms as qmail-queue)
mkdir -p /var/spool/qmailscan
mkdir -p /var/spool/qmailscan/viruses/tmp /var/spool/qmailscan/viruses/cur /var/spool/qmailscan/viruses/new
mkdir -p /var/spool/qmailscan/working/tmp /var/spool/qmailscan/working/cur /var/spool/qmailscan/working/new
mkdir -p /var/spool/qmailscan/archive/tmp /var/spool/qmailscan/archive/cur /var/spool/qmailscan/archive/new
cp scan-contents.txt /var/spool/qmailscan/
chown -R qmailq:qmail /var/spool/qmailscan/
#run "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -h" to view the few command-line options there are
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -z        # to initialize the version file.
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl -g        #to initialize the perlscanner database.

 

After this is done - as with the automated install - you will have to alter your system's Qmail startup scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail) to call QMAILQUEUE as documented.