What's New in V4 alpha 1

[Peter Nitschke]

Will it be possible to add scanners after install?

Peter

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On 20/09/2002 at 5:30 PM 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