ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

I have just posted up version 4.00.0a9 on the website.
Please remember this is a test version and not a full production release.

There are also the first versions of RPMs for RedHat 7.x and for RedHat
8.x. Please be sure to use the right set, they won't install (due to lack
of dependencies) if you use the wrong ones. If you aren't using RedHat,
then I suggest you try the RedHat 7.x set first as that doesn't require
Perl 5.8.

Give it all a go and let me know what you think.

The Exim support is coming on well, and will hopefully be ready for testing
in a few weeks time.

Changes this time are:

- Fixed various bugs.

- Supports multiple mqueue.in directories, either by specifying a wildcard
   in the MailScanner.conf file, or else by giving the name of a file
   that contains the list of directories.

- Improved handling of message/external-body messages, leaving any other
   segments of the message intact.

- Protection against <IFrame> and <Object> tags is now optional.

- HTML content embedded in messages can be converted to plain text. This
   is very useful if you have users who are children, or who are offended
   by messages such as pornographic spam. You can convert it based on the
   sender/recipients of the messages, or use it as an action to carry out
   when messages are detected as spam.

See what you think of the content filtering, it seems to do a good job on
the messages I have tested it with.
(Why can you never find a decent sample of porn spam when you need one? :-)

It's actually faster than I thought it would be, as the core HTML analysis
is done in C.
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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