Beta release 4.61.3

[Glenn Steen]

On 14/06/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I have just released the latest beta, 4.61.3.
> I would particularly like clamd users and Postfix users to test this
> release, please.
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> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
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> New additions in this beta versus the previous beta are:
> 3 'MailScanner --lint' now finds clamd virus scanner.
> 3 Made clamd subsys lock file blank by default, so it works on non-Linux
>   systems.
> 3 Added another example to the Allowed Sophos Error Messages setting for
>   password-protected files.
> 3 Fixed "identified/found" bug in AVG parser.
> 3 Fixed bugs in Panda and AVG parsers courtesy of Rick Cooper.
> 3 Fixed bug in Postfix handler which caused a problem with empty messages.
>
> The entire Change Log for this version is currently:
>
> * 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.
> 3 'MailScanner --lint' now finds clamd virus scanner.
> 3 Made clamd subsys lock file blank by default, so it works on non-Linux
>   systems.
> 3 Added another example to the Allowed Sophos Error Messages setting for
>   password-protected files.
>
> * 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.
> 3 Fixed "identified/found" bug in AVG parser.
> 3 Fixed bugs in Panda and AVG parsers courtesy of Rick Cooper.
> 3 Fixed bug in Postfix handler which caused a problem with empty messages.
>
> Jules
>
You ARE a prince among humans!

Just applied this to the newly resurrected primary MX (in my tipsy
state, the ease of the install of both MS and Clam+SA is a testament
to your genius... Even though there were quite a few build issues on
my Mandriva 2007.0 system (if you like, I can detail them, just need
to redo on the test system(s):-)... Turns out that most were already
present (by way of rpm or CPAN), so didn't matter anyway:-)

Take it easy and have a fabulous weekend Jules (yeah I know.... I'm a
day early.... Off tomorrow, cheering my sons at the end of semester
(<< fun thing is that in swedish, semester is the same as
vacation..... go figure.... yeah, I'm more than tipsy, I'll shut up
now:-)
Cherio Miss Sophie (very obscure, that reference:)
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-- Glenn
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