From MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk Tue Aug 1 09:14:51 2006 From: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Julian Field) Date: Tue Aug 1 09:58:44 2006 Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.55 stable released Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Morning/Afternoon/Evening all! I have just released the latest stable release of MailScanner, 4.55. There are many minor changes this month, nothing earth-shattering, and a few fixes for you. One new feature you may find useful is the "--changed" command-line option, which will make MailScanner print out a table of all the settings you have changed from the defaults. This should help diagnosing problem much easier, as you won't have to read the MailScanner.conf and try to spot the changes any more. Just run "MailScanner --changed" and it will tell you all you need to know. Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info The full Change Log is here: * New Features and Improvements * 1 Added educ.ar and uba.ar to country.domains.conf for less strict phishing net. 1 Code tidy up in Message constructor. 1 Speed improvements to ZMailer attachment extraction to keep up with the other MTAs. 1 "Log Speed = no" now does what it says on the tin. (UK in-joke :-) 1 Added "stopms" option to Linux init.d scripts. 1 Improved behaviour when %percentvars% at start of MailScanner.conf have not been configured at all. It now uses the fully-qualified hostname to guess the domain name and website address. It used to refuse to run which was very impolite. 1 Added Sys::Hostname::Long to list of required modules to implement the above. 2 Documentation rationalisation. Most up to date versions are all on the web. 3 Now output lock type in use with "--lint". 4 Improvement to Sophos.install for Sophos Version 5 so that email logging is disabled. 4 Now use syslog "notice" priority instead of "info" when issuing messages that are nearly warnings. This helps you drastically reduce the amount of syslog output by just logging priorities greater than or equal to "notice". 5 Added a "Contact Us" web page instead of just a mailto: link. 6 Improved Help guidance in Contact Us web page. 6 New command-line option: "-c" or "--changed". This will print out a table of all the configuration settings that have been changed from the default values hard-coded into MailScanner. Note this may not be quite the same as the differences from the supplied default MailScanner.conf file. 6 Updated hard-coded defaults to better match MailScanner.conf settings. 6 Improved handling of broken Custom Functions. Having a broken Custom Function will now just result in the setting's default value being used. 7 Bugfix for "--changed" printing when using Custom Functions. 8 Improved syslog-ing code so it doesn't matter is syslogd dies. 8 Upgraded DBD-SQLite to version 1.12 as it builds a lot more easily. 8 Improved handling of Postfix virtual users. Thanks to jpabuyer@tecnoera.com. 9 Added catch to commercial virus scanning code to allow syslogd to die during a virus scan. 9 Improved speed logging to remove chatter. 9 Upgraded Sys::Syslog to 0.17 which builds okay, unlike 0.16. 9 MCP timings are no longer output if MCP checks are disabled. * Fixes * 1 Put back in the checks of free disk space that were in 4.53.1 but then lost. 1 Fix in check_MailScanner for MacOSX. 3 Default lock type for sendmail is now posix, as it should be. 4 Fix to phishing net so that links to "www.domain.com." are accepted as legal. 6 Fixed problem with dangerous filenames in TNEF archives when using the external TNEF expander. 8 Fixed problem with long SpamAssassin report in report files getting truncated at % signs. 8 Fixed phishing net problem with some cases of outbind://\d+/.... URLs. 9 Stopped logging code producing ridiculous numbers. 9 Improved Denial-of-service attack detector to handle multiple virus scanners more quickly. Now clears detection in 2 x Virus Scanner Timeout, as expected. 9 Fixed minor bug in TNEF handling of bad messages. 9 "service MailScanner reload" should work properly now. - -- Julian Field MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.7.0 Charset: US-ASCII wj8DBQFEzw2LEfZZRxQVtlQRAkXgAJsGcNkLiq3fIciMmq6f6gbvouA6UgCg5ND9 DWtjaI46fNH1v4XPt9FK1Pk= =/a/k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. From mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk Mon Aug 7 18:46:38 2006 From: mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Julian Field) Date: Mon Aug 7 18:58:08 2006 Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Revision to 4.55 Message-ID: <44D77C7E.5010703@ecs.soton.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The author of the Sys::Syslog perl module has withdrawn it due to problems including compatibility issues with some Linux distributions. The most obvious effect is that the "make test" step may hang part-way through the tests. As a result, I have had no alternative other than to reluctantly publish a revision of the latest stable release of MailScanner. If you had problems installing 4.55.9 (notably on some CentOS systems) then download and upgrade to 4.55.10. Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info Note that if you had no problems installing 4.55.9, there is no reason to upgrade to 4.55.10. Sorry for this forced re-release. - -- Julian Field www.MailScanner.info Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help? Contact me at Jules@MailScanner.biz PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654 Get your PCs and servers from Transtec.de, very well built and reliable! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.7.0 Charset: ISO-8859-1 wj8DBQFE13yFEfZZRxQVtlQRAp7BAKCAElkjZdYDjj1snNJ3gz5NPr90oACcD7UW 24ByWh9/vqg8VFwMXAWtnvg= =Ctux -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.