ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Julian Field]

At 18:27 06/10/2002, you wrote:
>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.

That's not a bad idea at all. I'll have to discover exactly what rpm
--rebuild does and what it doesn't. Then I could give you .src.rpm files
for all the perl modules.


>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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> >Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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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