ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[G. Armour Van Horn]

That sounded like good news, as I was trying to switch from Kaspersky to f-prot
anyway.

I fetched the RedHat 7.2 RPM set and tried it. I had to use --nodeps because my
sendmail was installed from source rather than from RPM, so it couldn't find
the package, but the rest of it went in alright.

However, no mail is being processed. My test messages seem to be accumulating
in /var/spool/mqueue.in, so nothing is going to be lost, but they aren't
getting to the user mail spools. Here is what I see at startup:

[root at verbose MailScanner]# service MailScanner start
Starting MailScanner daemons:
         incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
         MailScanner:       /usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: cd:
/opt/MailScanner/bin: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: mailscanner: command not found
                                                           [  OK  ]

If I just use check_MailScanner the error is a little more clear:

[root at verbose MailScanner]# /usr/sbin/check_MailScanner
Starting virus scanner...
/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: cd: /opt/MailScanner/bin: No such file or
directory
/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: mailscanner: command not found

So where does the RPM put the mailscanner, and how do I change the directory
that is being requested?

Van



Julian Field wrote:

> 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.
> --
> 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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