Beta release 4.62.1

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 6 09:38:47 UTC 2007



Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the 
Problem wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:32:26PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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>> I have fixed 2 major bugs in the auto-zip feature, and I have changed 
>> the session handling in the clamd support to Rick's latest code.
>>
>> Download as usual www.mailscanner.info.
>>
>> The Change Log is:
>>
>> * New Features and Improvements *
>> 1 Direct support for the "clamd" virus scanner -- now talks directly to the
>>   clamd daemon without any overhead of calling clamd-wrapper or clamdscan.
>>   As a result, this should be faster than the previous clamd support.
>>   It also has a much smaller memory footprint than the "clamavmodule" 
>> scanner.
>>   This is all thanks to Rick Cooper who wrote the original code.
>>   New configuration options are
>>   - Clamd Port = 3310
>>   - Clamd Socket = /tmp/clamd
>>   - Clamd Lock File = /var/lock/subsys/clamd
>>   - Clamd Use Threads = no
>>   The use of these settings is explained in the MailScanner.conf file.
>> 2 Changed session handling in direct clamd virus scanner support.
>>
>> * Fixes *
>> 2 Fixed bug in auto-zip feature with a message containing 2 attachments with
>>   the same filename.
>> 2 Fixed bug in auto-zip feature that would allow zipping of an attachment
>>   which had been cleaned out of the message.
>>
>> Jules
>>
>> - -- 
>> Julian Field MEng CITP
>> www.MailScanner.info
>> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
>>
>>     
>
> Julian, will the above work with clmd 0.88.7 ?
>   
I honestly don't know. Give it a try :)
> Also will there be a revised edition of the book coming out? 
>   
If I can find the enthusiasm to get started on it, yes.

Jules

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