ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Peter Nitschke]

Would it be easier if you made a *.src.rpm that we could build?   As I
understand it, that would fix problems with different perl versions etc.

Peter

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On 6/10/2002 at 1:18 PM Julian Field wrote:

>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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