ANNOUNCE: Version 4.10-1 released

Tue Dec 3 14:57:03 GMT 2002

Hi,

I am using sendmail and I am pretty sure this either comes from razor or
from DCC. I am about to find out now and tell you ASAP. Strange though:

1. Why have I not noticed this before?
2. Why does this happen the moment I turn on MailScanner? There should
be nothing left in the mailqueue.

Regards,
 JP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Version 4.10-1 released
> 
> 
> Are you using Exim or sendmail?
> I can't find any lines containing the text printed below in 
> the MailScanner source code.
> 
> Have you got any debug settings switched on or anything like 
> that? I don't think this code can possibly actually come from 
> MailScanner, it must be coming from something it calls.
> 
> Nick --- got any ideas where this is coming from?
> 
> At 14:42 03/12/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi Julian,
> >
> >I just upgraded to 4.10-1. Starting MailScanner I get the following 
> >console output for every new instance:
> >
> >Number of lines: 20
> >Relative Line Numbers (in percent): 12.697333199579 29.519721770149 
> >40.8800726258374 63.8060390653807 74.5889492315516 93.5640391425596 
> >Absolute Line Numbers: 2 5 8 12 14 18 Relative Offsets for 
> section 1: 
> >48.2012991046913 99.3694709983668 Relative Offsets for section 2: 
> >6.93676010661921 83.6820767989025 Length of the first section: 264 
> >bytes Length of the second section: 198 bytes
> >Chunk start/end positions in Section 1: 127 262 (length: 135)
> >Chunk start/end positions in Section 2: 13 165 (length: 152)
> >Absolute chunk offsets: Line 6 charachter 61 to line 8 character 64
> >Absolute chunk offsets: Line 12 charachter 13 to line 14 character 33
> >Section 1: loadsI need to make this message body somewhat long so
> >TextCat preloadsI need to make this message body somewhat long so
> >TextCat preloa
> >Section 2: e this message body somewhat long so TextCat 
> preloadsI need
> >to make this message body somewhat long so TextCat preloadsI need to
> >make this message body
> >Total length of stuff that will be hashed: 287
> >Computed e-hash is 32a699489a8a872fe2c90e3026ee5e1f87286acc
> >
> >What am I doing wrong? I updated mailscanner.conf with the language 
> >setting and copied bin and etc/reports over the old installation.
> >
> >Regards,
> >   JP
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:49 AM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: ANNOUNCE: Version 4.10-1 released
> > >
> > >
> > > Morning all,
> > >
> > > I have just released version 4.10-1.
> > >
> > > Most important in this new version are the addition of 
> Exim support, 
> > > and the addition of a package designed for SuSE Linux 8.0 and 8.1.
> > >
> > > There are also many other changes and additions as 
> requested by all 
> > > sorts of people.
> > >
> > > You can download it all as usual from
> > >                  www.mailscanner.info
> > >
> > > The full ChangeLog is this:
> > >
> > > New in Version 4.10
> > > ===================
> > > - Exim supported as well as sendmail.
> > > - I can now accept credit card donations.
> > > - Numerous minor changes to ease transition from V3 to V4.
> > > - Logging improvements to differentiate between initial scanning, 
> > > disinfection and re-scanning passes over each batch.
> > > - Logging improvements to spam detection when not using 
> > > SpamAssassin.
> > > - HTML messages containing IFrame tags can be converted to
> > > plain text and then delivered normally.
> > > - Fixed df2mbox script for new spam dir layout and included
> > > it in the distributions.
> > > - Another improvement to the F-Prot output parser.
> > > - "Silent Viruses" list is no longer case insensitive.
> > > - NOTE: Important fix for latest versions of Kaspersky.
> > > - Fixed bug where properly disinfectable attachments could
> > > bypass filename checks.
> > > - Re-wrote pipe code in RBL and SpamAssassin checking, as it
> > > occasionally fails badly for unknown reasons for 1 user.
> > > - Reduced default maximum number of unscanned messages per
> > > batch, as these users were actually running out of file handles.
> > > - Improved comments for "Virus Scanning" option in
> > > mailscanner.conf file.
> > > - Moved all static output strings into languages.conf for
> > > translation. MailScanner should now be properly multi-lingual
> > > (several at the same time!).
> > > - Added Danish translation (not quite complete, a few still
> > > in English).
> > > - Added Italian translation.
> > > - Fixed "Spam Bounce to" logging problem.
> > > - SpamScore header doesn't appear when message is whitelisted.
> > > - SpamCheck header always starts with "spam" or "not spam".
> > > - Run-time selection of Exim vs Sendmail.
> > > - Spam headers now obey "Multiple Headers" configuration option.
> > > - Improved RedHat init.d script to allow local customisation
> > > of mqueue.in dir.
> > > - Slight path correction in sophos-autoupdate.
> > > - Reverted to having 1 PID file instead of a PID dir. Killing
> > > the parent will kill the children. Please use "kill" and not
> > > "kill -9" as it will do a better job.
> > > - Linux init.d script improved so that stop, restart, reload
> > > and status should work better.
> > > - Linux distribution now contains QuickInstall.txt instructions.
> > > - Slightly improved wording of spam logging.
> > > - Several warnings fixed.
> > > - Configuration compiler now locks all config files as they
> > > are read, so that if you use "Restart Every" to restart
> > > frequently with config files updated by other scripts, you
> > > can simply copy the file-locking code from one of the
> > > autoupdate scripts and the same protection will be provided
> > > against reading config files while they are being updated.
> > > - Added Romanian translation of reports.
> > > - WinEvar added to default list of silent viruses.
> > > - .ceo added to default list of banned filename extensions
> > > for attachments.
> > > - Notices can now be sent to multiple recipients
> > > (space-separated list).
> > > - F-Prot autoupdate script changed for different (ftp)
> > > fallback server, and improved error logging.
> > > - IFrame and Object Codebase tags only allowed if all
> > > recipients+sender agree that they should be allowed.
> > > - Added Posix setsigmask() calls to work around bug in 
> Perl shipped 
> > > with Solaris 9 which doesn't reset the blocked-signals mask 
> > > properly.
> > > - Bug fixed to correctly handle messages with no headers at all.
> > > - McAfee autoupdate script now prints McAfee version 
> number when it 
> > > tries to run McAfee to test the updated pattern files.
> > > --
> > > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & 
> Computer Science
> > > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> > >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > >
> 
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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