New Year's Resolution and new beta release

[Ken A]

Julian Field wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> Yes, it's me, I've actually had time to catch up.
> 
> My New Year's Resolution is to try to spend more time doing MailScanner 
> support. For the last 6 months I have only had time to check my 
> mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk address, not the mailing lists at all.
> 
> Several months recently have been really tough at work on a personal 
> level, having to face up to the consequences of my poor health in ways I 
> have not had to before, which was a really rough time. I have more or 
> less come to terms with it now, and the facts have pretty much sunk in 
> so I am feeling rather better now than any time over the past few months.
> 
> I don't guarantee I'm going to be able to check the list every day, nor 
> read every posting, but I will try a lot harder to show my face around 
> here sometimes. I have a big database programming job that is going to 
> last for the whole of the next year, so my time is limited. But I am 
> going to try to reshuffle a few things in an effort to make more time 
> for you guys. I have never done much database programming before, I've 
> always found a nice light-weight way around having to use a full scale 
> SQL server. And I've never done any .Net or C# before either, so I've 
> got a lot to learn.
> 
> Secondly, I have just released a new Beta version. This is 4.58.4.
> 
> I have fixed the bug where the {Fraud?} tag was not displayed, but the 
> {Disarmed} tag instead. You should now get {Fraud?} wherever it finds a 
> phishing trap, and you will also get {Disarmed} if you "Highlight 
> Phishing Fraud" as well. I hope that is good enough for you.
> 
> I have also figured out how to get the configuration system to call a 
> ruleset from within a Custom Function. So if you want to handle some 
> situations with a Custom Function, but then have that use a ruleset some 
> of the time, you can now do it. It is something I never dreamed up when 
> I was writing it, so it is pulling a stunt I never thought I would need. 
> I have produced a stripped-down example of how to do it, and the code is 
> in the /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions directory, along 
> with the other few examples I provide you to start from.
> 
> I intend to release a new Stable version very soon, hopefully in the 
> next week or so. Please do test the new {Fraud?} tag code and give the 
> whole thing a good run on any test hosts you may have available.
> 
> Beta-testers ----> This means you guys please!

A prayer for your health!.. and that the dotNet/C#/MSSQL task goes well! 
I just downloaded the new beta, and will advise of any issues I find.

Thanks,
Ken A.
Pacific.Net

> So it just leaves me to wish you all a very good New Year, and let's 
> hope this year is personally rather less stressful than last year!
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Jules
>