F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner

Introduction to F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner

F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner is a set of perl modules and scripts that work as an e-mail processor. An e-mail processor is a configurable program that can disassemble a multipart MIME message, decode it and run certain operations on it. F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner has the capability of both sanitizing and defanging dangerous e-mail content. Also it provides a fairly simple interface for setting policies based on a multitude of criteria.

F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner can be used to scan e-mail at mail delivery using, e.g., procmail, or in-transit using the Sendmail/libmilter plug-in, the Postfix plug-in or the Qmail plug-in for F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner.

Requirements for F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner

F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner depends on the Perl 5.8 interpreter being present. If your computer does not have Perl 5.8 installed by default, please consult your manual on how to install it.

F-Prot Antivirus Mail Scanner also depends on a couple of Perl modules. MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint need to be present on your system in order for Anomy to work. To install these modules. To install them, run the command 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' from your command-prompt as root. Complete the questionnaire, and when you reach the cpan prompt ("cpan> ") type in "install MIME::Base64". Next, type in "install MIME::QuotedPrint". That should complete the installation of the two modules.

Please note if your system meets the requirements stated here above but you still receive a failed dependencies error, use the --nodeps argument when trying to install the rpm, e.g.

rpm -Uvh --nodeps fp-linux-ms-4.3.2-1.i386.rpm

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