ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

Should be fixed now. Do an "rpm -e mailscanner", download it again, and
re-install it.

I badly need to get the whole build process sorted out, otherwise I'm going
to keep making mistakes like this
:-(

At 12:21 06/10/2002, you wrote:
>[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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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