ANNOUNCE: Version 4 released

[Gerry Doris]

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 09:42, Julian Field wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> <stage lighting="dim" sound="drumroll">
>
> Well, I've finally made it, here is MailScanner Version 4.
>
> There are loads of new features, but here are the most important. For
> everything else, read the ChangeLog in the downloads.
>
> - Completely redesigned and rewritten from scratch
> - Multiple concurrent scanning processes makes it run much faster as all
>     the CPU's in the server can be fully loaded at all times
> - Ran 4 times faster than version 3 in speed tests on a dual-CPU system
> - Virtually all configuration options can have their value calculated from
>    a ruleset allowing you to set different values depending on the From:
>    address, the To: address or the IP address of the computer sending you
>    the message
> - Now supports 13 virus scanners:
>    Sophos, McAfee, Command, Kaspersky, Inoculate, Inoculan, Nod32, F-Secure,
>    F-Prot, Panda, RAV, AntiVir and Clam.
> - Added traps for all known Outlook, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer
>    and Eudora security vulnerabilities.
>    MailScanner is now a complete e-mail security system, not just a virus
>    scanner.
> - Actions to take when a message is detected as being spam include any
>    combination of
>    "deliver" it to the intended recipient as normal
>    "store"   it in the spam archive
>    "delete"  it altogether
>    "bounce"  it back to the sender by sending them a warning message
>    "forward" it to any other email addresses
>     "striphtml" to remove all HTML content and images, leaving only plain text
> - 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.
> - A 4th security patch added to MIME-tools to handle messages better that
>    have badly-formed MIME headers in sections of the message.
>
> Notes:
> ======
> 1) This release can only be used with sendmail. Exim support for this
> version will be released soon.
> 2) People who have been using the alpha test versions: I have removed the
> "Load SpamAssassin" option. You will need to ensure you remove this from
> your conf file as its presence will stop MailScanner starting.
>
> Download it all from www.mailscanner.info
>
> All comments to mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk or this mailing list please.
> I hope you like it!
>
> Jules.
> --
> 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

Congratulation on getting version 4 launched!

Hmmm, and I just finished downloading and installing 3.24-1 this
morning!  Is there anything special that needs to be done to switch over
from version 3 to version 4?

Gerry