ANNOUNCE: Version 3.27 and 4.11

[Robert A. Thompson]

re-download the rpm.  sounds like you have a bad rpm.  Might try a
md5sum to check the file.  I assume the md5sums are on the website.

--rat

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 20:39, pg wrote:
> I'm using Redhat 7.2. I tried to upgrade to 3.27 from 3.26 but the following
> error message appeared :
>
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/spool/mqueue.in: cpio:
> rename failed - Is a directory
>
> -Jason
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 7:48 PM
> Subject: ANNOUNCE: Version 3.27 and 4.11
>
>
> > Happy New Year everyone!
> >
> > I have just released updated versions of both V3 and V4.
> >
> > The only change for V3 is an important security fix, which you can easily
> > apply without upgrading if you don't want to. See the ChangeLog below for
> > details.
> >
> > There are many improvements and changes for V4. A few of them are:
> > - Security fix is included
> > - Modify Subject: line to show a message has been scanned
> > - Stop MailScanner replying to mailing lists that send it viruses
> > - Quarantine-cleaning script included
> > - Virus scanner update cron job replaced by global updater script
> > - Full installation instructions for FreeBSD
> > - Improved AntiVir, Sophos, F-Prot and F-Secure parsers
> >
> > Also, in the spirit of Perl tradition, there is now a MailScanner Poetry
> > page for all you closet bards out there. Contributions are most welcome
> :-)
> >
> > It can all be downloaded as usual from
> >         www.mailscanner.info
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > For completeness, here is the entry from the ChangeLog for V4.11:
> >
> > *Security*
> > - *** Important Security Fix ***
> >
> >    You must edit the "sendmail -bd ..." command in your init script and
> add
> >                            -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn
> >    as otherwise people could maliciously bypass MailScanner on servers
> that
> > are under heavy load.
> >    It is *vital* that you protect yourself with this change.
> >    However, please note there have been no reports at all of this problem
> > being actively exploited.
> >    It is included in the init scripts that are part of the RPM
> > distributions, so RPM users just need to upgrade to the latest
> mailscanner*rpm.
> >
> > *New Features and Improvements*
> > - Added 2 more configuration options to modify the subject line whenever a
> > message is scanned (but no other subject line changes have happened) so it
> > is obvious to all that the message has been scanned. By default this will
> > (if enabled) add "{Scanned}" to the end of the Subject: line.
> > - Added "Never Notify Senders Of Precedence" configuration option so that
> > you can stop MailScanner replying to postings to mailing lists and other
> > bulk mail.
> > - A modified version of Steve Patterson's "clean.quarantine" script is
> > included as a daily cron job. It is disabled by default. Edit it to see
> how
> > to enable it. If you edit it, it will not be over-written by later
> upgrades
> > to MailScanner.
> > - Written an update_virus_scanners script which updates all installed
> > scanners. This is called hourly, as daily wasn't often enough and RedHat
> > don't offer anything between hourly and daily.
> > - Implemented full support for BSD with installation instructions based on
> > the tar distribution.
> > - Added Swedish translation of all reports.
> > - Added Spanish and Slovak translation of language strings.
> > - Added wrapper script for inoculan.
> > - Added an AntiVir autoupdate script.
> > - Improved AntiVir parser to handle new output format.
> > - Sophos parser improved to detect Sophos complaining about being given 1
> > part of a multi-part archive. Gets flagged as a virus.
> > - F-Prot and F-Secure parsers improved to handle unusual virus names and
> > quieter handling of archives containing infected files.
> > - Added "$filename" variable expansion in sender warnings. Used it in the
> > English versions of the sender warnings.
> > - Completely new daemonising code to fix problems with ssh sessions
> > refusing to die.
> > - Added "startin" and "startout" parameters to init.d scripts for RedHat
> > and SuSE.
> > - Improved error reporting slightly in configuration compiler.
> > - Spam logging now includes the recipient domains as well as the sender.
> > - Incoming Queue Dirs can now be a file listing directories which include
> > wildcards.
> > - Added the message's subject line to the sender spam reports.
> > - Added a "sleep 5" in between the stop and start in "restart" in the
> > init.d script.
> > - Creates quarantine directories as required.
> > - Added link checking in code for finding incoming queue dirs.
> > - Added note for McAfee users about avoiding symlinks with anything even
> > remotely connected to McAfee itself.
> > - Added "Poetry" page to the web site for Nick's idle thoughts...
> >
> > *Fixes*
> > - Fixed problem of orphaned queue files being left in incoming queue when
> > MailScanner child processes are killed half-way through clearing a
> message.
> > - Fixed file locking code in Config.pm so Exim users do not have to have
> > the config files owned by exim.exim instead of root.root.
> > - Fixed Exim missing-characters-from-start-of-message bug.
> > - Fixed SpamAssassin "timeout 260 of 20" counter bug.
> > - Fixed EximDiskStore file locking bug.
> > - Fixed bug where unscanned messages are not properly archived if not
> > archiving as raw queue files.
> > - Fixed bug stopping Exim collecting large message batches.
> > - Changed default virus scanner from "sophos" to "none".
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >