From MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk Fri Jun 1 10:55:48 2007 From: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Julian Field) Date: Fri Jun 1 11:01:09 2007 Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Release 4.60.8 Message-ID: <465FED24.8070005@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Hi folks! Time for another new release, as it seems to have been quite a busy month. The major new features this month are: - Support for milters in Postfix 2.3 and 2.4. - All the attachments in a message can be compressed into a single zip file, saving space on mail servers when people have attached large uncompressed files. Look in the MailScanner.conf file for the "Zip Attachments" setting and you will find 4 settings giving you control over this feature. - A lot of the installed Perl modules have been upgraded to their latest releases. Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info The full Change Log for this release is: * New Features and Improvements * 1 Improved Sophos.install script so that it sets up /etc/ld.so.conf ready for installation of Perl-SAVI module required for "sophossavi" virus scanner. 1 Custom Functions can now receive parameters not only to their Init and End functions, but also to their run-time calculation functions (i.e. the real custom function itself used when processing each message). The Custom Function is now passed not only the message, but also a ref to a list of parameters specified in the MailScanner.conf file. 1 Improvement to phishing net. 1 'clamavmodule' scanner no longer detects encrypted zips/rars as viruses, leaving MailScanner to do the check later in the dangerous content scanning. The consequence is that MailWatch will allow them to be released from quarantine. 2 Updated a whole load of Perl modules in the pre-requisites lists for both MailScanner and SpamAssassin. 2 Added a "--nomodules" command-line option to the MailScanner install.sh script to skip installing required Perl modules. 2-2 Fixed bugs introduced by 4.60.2 in generic installer. Only affects 'other Linux and non-Linux' installer. 2-4 Fixed more non-Linux installer problems. 4 Added more modules to the list output by "MailScanner --version". 4 Improved phishing net detection of HTML tags, courtesy of snifer_@hotmail.com. 4 Added patches to provide full "p record" support in Postfix 2.3 and 2.4, courtesy of Glenn Steen . 5 Added a new feature, to compress all the attachments in a message and replace them with a single zip file. Set "Zip Attachments = yes" (no by default), and set "Attachments Zip Filename = MessageAttachments.zip" 6 Added 2 new configuration options for the "Zip Attachments" feature: Attachments Min Total Size To Zip = 100k Attachment Extensions Not To Zip = .zip .rar .tgz .gz .mpg .mpeg .mp3 .rpm Hopefully these are fairly self-explanatory. * Fixes * 1 Phishing net now correctly handles HTML tags inside links. 1 Deprecated clamscan flag replaced with supported one to stop it printing the summary. 1 Added '-b' to nod32-1.99 command-line options in SweepViruses.pm to stop scanner producing licensing details. Thanks to UxBoD. 1 Removed test in RPM distribution's test for RedHat 6 as it will clash with RHEL 6 and Fedora. Anyone still running RedHat 6 has bigger problems! :-) 1 Worked round Perl bug in returning number of RBLs hit by a message. 1 Fixed problem causing some password-protected RAR archives to be missed. 3 Fixed bug introduced in earlier beta in RBL code. 6-2 Patch to Exim to handle named ACL variables as well as numbered ones. Courtesy of Maarten Vink. 7 Added v320.pre to mcp directory. 7 Postfix 2.3/2.4 patch fix. Jules -- Julian Field MEng CITP www.MailScanner.info Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help? Contact me at Jules@Jules.FM PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654 For all your IT requirements visit www.transtec.co.uk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. For all your IT requirements visit www.transtec.co.uk From MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk Wed Jun 13 22:37:45 2007 From: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Julian Field) Date: Wed Jun 13 22:39:51 2007 Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Book updated Message-ID: <467063A9.1020202@ecs.soton.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have just received my proof copy of the latest revision of the MailScanner book. I have updated the Training Manual to describe every new feature up to and including the current beta release 4.61. Unfortunately, this time the new additions are spread throughout the Training Manual, removing the possibility of releasing the new material as a free PDF file. However, if you read the Change Log since version 4.44, you will get brief descriptions of all the new features. More documentation about each configuration setting can be found on the web for free at http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html And before you ask, no, you cannot buy a PDF copy of the book. It is only available in dead tree format. Sorry. Best regards, Jules - -- Julian Field MEng CITP www.MailScanner.info Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help? Contact me at Jules@Jules.FM PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654 For all your IT requirements visit www.transtec.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) Charset: ISO-8859-1 wj8DBQFGcGO+EfZZRxQVtlQRApOMAJ993AFhGPPcmuIzC1VxEymf/g/TdQCePgOH oGEqz0iF+1TYb/U80k6AYn0= =G6HV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. For all your IT requirements visit www.transtec.co.uk