ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.23-1

[Mike Kercher]

Is there a way to extract the MailScanner.conf from the .rpm so I can get it
setup before doing the upgrade?  I've been trying different uses of rpm2cpio
without success.  I suppose I could just download the tarball and get it
from there.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:34 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: ANNOUNCE: beta release 4.23-1


I have just posted 4.23-1 to the web site. This is a beta release, so the
usual rules apply: I don't guarantee it works and I wouldn't advise running
it on a production server.

It doesn't improve on the handling of eTrust or bitdefender, they are my
next targets. But I thought it would be a good idea for you folks to try it
out and see how things are progressing.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info

ChangeLog is this:

* New Features and Improvements *
- Improved error detection in bitdefender-autoupdate.
- Added 5 minute timeout to clamav-autoupdate.
- Messages bigger than the max SA testing size are now checked by SA, just
   only the first n bytes of the message will be checked.
- Logging now handles syslog-ng better, as it will attempt to re-open the
   syslog connection if it dies while logging to it.
- Better mcafee-autoupdate script from Tony Finch. Allows non-root user
   more easily, and can delete old files if you want it to.
- Implemented special "silent viruses" list keyword "All-Viruses" which
matches
   the name of any virus. This means you can make messages silent which
contain
   just viruses and none (or a combination) of the HTML hacks that are
detected.
- Implemented "Use Default Rules With Multiple Recipients" configuration
   option to force predictable results when faced with a message with
multiple
   recipients who have conflicting user preferences.
- Now check that at least 1 file matches all of the filename patterns
   specified in "Monitors For Sophos Updates".
- Implemented various new parameters so that messages which only have
   dangerous content, and nothing else wrong with them, get a "dangerous
   content" warning rather than a "virus" warning.
- "Include Scanner Name In Reports" now also includes the name "MailScanner"
   at the start of the report lines that come from MailScanner's own
   internal filename, filetype and content checks. The exact wording used
can
   be customised in languages.conf.

* Fixes *
- Corrected minor typo in check_MailScanner cron job.
- Corrected typo in SweepOther.pm.
- Corrected handling of non-archives in kavdaemonclient scanner.
- SQL Logging code now translates '' into 'NULL' before inserting into
table.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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