Beta 4.55.1

[Julian Field]

Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>> I don't like headers that give away things like the version number. 
>> It just gives more information to potential hackers. You can always 
>> put it into your X-MailScanner-Information: header, if you use that 
>> header at all.
>>
>> Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>>> Will give it a shot. One question... Besides the obvious (adding a 
>>> header in spam-actions and/or non-spam actions), is there a way for 
>>> someone to turn on and off (perhaps a bit of a patch to message.pm, 
>>> IANAP) a header specifying the mailscanner version?
>>
> I meant as an option. If I wanted to add it to 
> "X-MailScanner-Information:", is there a variable I could use to 
> indicate it?
>
> I could use it in a ruleset, for example:
>
> Information Header Value = %rules-dir%/xinfo.rules
>
> xinfo.rules:
>
> FromOrTo:   default    Please contact the ISP for more information
> To:   *@nkpanama.com   MailScanner Version %version%
>
> Would something like this work?
That's a very good idea, thankyou. Edit /usr/sbin/MailScanner and add 
this at about line 296.
MailScanner::Config::SetPercent('version',$MailScanner::Config::MailScannerVersion);

This will set %version% to be the version number for you.

I will put this in the next release.

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