Beta 4.55.8 -- please test!

[Peter Russell]

I am going to build a replica of the prod server today or testing nd e 
use postfix virtual users for multiple domains.

What has changed , is there anything specific we should be looking for?

thanks
pete

Julian Field wrote:
> I have just released beta 4.55.8.
> 
> This is intended to be the last beta before the next stable release at 
> the start of August.
> 
> The main changes to this are
> -- Postfix virtual user and virtual domain handling. It is especially 
> important that you ensure I haven't broken anything here, it is relying 
> on contributed code (which I rarely do!).
> -- Upgrade DBD-SQLite so that it builds more easily on many platforms.
> -- It should no longer matter if syslogd dies during execution.
> 
> Download as usual from
>             www.mailscanner.info
> 
> Full change log is this:
> 
> * 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 at tecnoera.com.
> 
> * 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.
> 
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