ANNOUNCE: Version 3.20-1 released

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 14 14:52:54 IST 2002


Fixed.

This was a minor bug in a user-contributed script to support RAV, which I
couldn't test as I haven't got a copy of RAV to test it against :-(

Version 3.20-2 released.

At 14:40 14/06/2002, you wrote:
>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...
>
>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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