What's New in V4 alpha 1

[Julian Field]

At 17:36 20/09/2002, you wrote:
>Just one question:
>
>Is there support for other MTA's? Exim, qmail etc...?

Nothing except sendmail at the moment. Exim will obviously happen when Nick
gets a chance, and he is also intending to add support for Postfix. Qmail
is questionable, we'll have to wait and see what  the job looks like...


>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>Here's the "What's New" list. It may not be complete, and some of the
>>features are far more flexible than I can give space to here, but it should
>>give you a flavour of what is new in this release.
>>
>>- 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
>>
>>- 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
>>
>>- Support for 12 virus scanners:
>>   Sophos, McAfee, Command, Kaspersky, Inoculate, Inoculan, Nod32, F-Secure,
>>   F-Prot, Panda, RAV and AntiVir.
>>
>>- Can report messages back to people who sent you spam, explaining what
>>   detected it as spam. Different messages depending on whether it triggered
>>   an RBL, SpamAssassin or both.
>>
>>- Complete hiding of directory paths in virus reports sent to users, so
>>   as not to confuse them or give away configuration information about your
>>   servers
>>
>>- A header can be added to every message indicating the SpamAssassin score
>>   by giving 1 character per point, so a message with a score of 7 would
>>   contain "sssssss" in the header (the character is configurable).
>>
>>- Notices about viruses no longer have to go to the local postmaster, they
>>   can go to any address
>>
>>- All messages sent back to senders are created so that they cannot bounce,
>>   but can be replied to
>>
>>- Messages already signed as being clean will not be re-signed by another
>>   MailScanner server on your site (but they will still be scanned)
>>
>>- 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
>>
>>- Completely separate set of actions can be used when the message scores
>>   above a certain SpamAssassin "High Score" threshold
>>
>>- Mail for any group of users can be archived to a directory or forwarded
>>   onto another address. The original recipient should not be able to
>>   detect this has happened, if you choose not to tell them
>>
>>- Spam whitelists and blacklists can be far more complex than before, if
>>   you need them to be
>>
>>- Not only can you choose a list of addresses whose mail you want to scan,
>>   you can also choose a list of addresses whose mail you do not want to
>>scan
>>
>>- You can choose not to run SpamAssassin on messages that have already
>>   triggered an RBL blacklist
>>
>>--
>>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
>
>
>--
>
>Regards
>Brandon Friedman
>Cell:083 408 7840
>E-mail: brandonf at bfconsult.co.za
>www.bfconsult.co.za

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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