ANNOUNCE: Version 4 released

[Mike Kercher]

I was starting MS by issuing /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner restart

To install, I just untarred the bunch of rpm's and ran ./install.sh

I then made all the changes to my MailScanner.conf and tried starting
it.  I looked through the initscript and found no references to
/opt/MailScanner, so I just removed the symlink and the problem went
away.

Mike




-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 11:14 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Version 4 released


At 17:03 20/10/2002, you wrote:
>I just installed V4 (rpm).  I did not reuse my old .conf file as there
>are not THAT many modifications to be made.  One problem I had was the
>following complaints:
>
>Syntax error(s) in configuration file: at
>/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner/Config.pm line 717 Unrecognised
>keyword "highscoringspammodifysubject" at line 459 at
>/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner/Config.pm line 720 Unrecognised
>keyword "highscoringspamsubjecttext" at line 464 at
>/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner/Config.pm line 720 Unrecognised
>keyword "requiredspamassassinscore" at line 604 at
>/opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner/Config.pm line 720 Aborting due to
>syntax errors. at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner/Config.pm line 725
>
>I removed the symlink /opt/MailScanner, restarted MS and no more
>complaints.  Not sure why MS was still referring to /opt/MailScanner
><?>

How were you starting MS? The check_MailScanner command (also known as
check_mailscanner) is the best way. How did you install/upgrade it? I
can't quite see what you have done.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 8:42 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: Version 4 released
>
>
>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

--
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