ANNOUNCE: Version 3.20-1 released

[David Lancaster]

RedHat 7.2

[root at spamfilter root]# rpm -Uvh mailscanner-3.20-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        /usr/local/bin/perl   is needed by mailscanner-3.20-1

ln'ing or copy'ing /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl doesn't help...

D.



On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> It's release time again.
> Loads of goodies for you all in this new version :-)
> As usual, you can download it from
>          http://www.mailscanner.info/
>
> Jules.
>
> Features:
> ========
> -- Moved McAfee support from "mcafee" directory to "uvscan" to make McAfee
> installation simpler
> -- Added configuration option to control logging of spam messages
> -- Added configuration option to control compilation of SpamAssassin code
> for speed
> -- Added support for RBL lists that work by domain name rather than by IP
> number
> -- Added configuration option to list viruses that should be quietly
> deleted without informing the sender or recipient. A good example is the
> "Klez" worm
> -- Added configuration option to allow the "VirusWarning.txt" message to be
> inline or an attachment
> -- Added configuration option to enable SpamAssassin's "auto-whitelist"
> functionality
> -- Added optional internal TNEF expansion using CPAN Perl Convert::TNEF module
> -- Added support for Panda and RAV virus scanners, bringing total supported
> to 10
> -- Added a per-message timeout for the RBL checks
> -- Added facility to quarantine copy of entire message as well as just
> infected attachments
>
> Improvements:
> ===========
> -- Many optimisations and speed improvements
> -- Improvement to warning message placing in multipart/related messages
> -- Updated version of MIME-tools module shipped and included
> mime-tools-patch.txt from Bugtraq
> -- RPM installation will automatically patch MIME-tools as it is installed
> -- RPM installation will only install Perl modules that are not present or
> need upgrading
> -- RPM installation changed so upgrading should be easier now
> -- Won't call SpamAssassin on every message when it doesn't need to
> -- Added MIME scanning option to McAfee scanner command-line
>
> Fixes:
> =====
> -- Now requires at least Perl 5.005 due to bugs in previous versions of Perl
> -- Signatures on clean messages can now have a space at the end of a line
> -- Fixed bug (according to a user) in the Inoculan output parser. Not
> verified yet.
> -- Hopefully the "not spam" entries appear in the right messages now
> -- Fixed bug where some unscanned messages were being marked as clean
> -- Fixed bug where some "%" signs could disappear from Subject: headers
> --
> 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
>



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David Lancaster
ITS ESS