ANNOUNCE: Version 4.22-5 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 3 16:26:23 IST 2003


At 15:53 03/07/2003, you wrote:
>Have just checked but still the spam black whistelists aren't properly
>lowered?
>
>I still need to make duplicate entries for some domains because different
>servers on the other side display the sender domain in different casing.
>
>I still have to make two entries to whitelist for example:
>
>From:           @domain.com                     yes
>From:           @DOMAIN.com                     yes
>
>Thought that the domain part for the black/whitelist would be made case
>insensitive?

I can't figure this one out, as the check is made case-insensitive in at 3
different ways already.
:-(


>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ron Broersma wrote:
>
> > Julian,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick fix.  RBL checking is working again without the
> > other file hacks.
> >
> > You might want to check that mcafee-autoupdate script.  I had to remove
> > all the embedded /r characters (every line) before it would work without
> > complaint.  Also had to set LIBDIR and FTPDIR back to the defaults where
> > they were before.
> >
> > --Ron
> >
> > Julian Field wrote:
> > > I have fixed the bug below, and I think it warrants another release
> as this
> > > will have stopped everyone's RBL lists from working unless you
> convert them
> > > all to lower-case.
> > >
> > > The only other changes are
> > > - improve the efficiency of the filetype checking
> > > - add Tony Finch's improved mcafee-autoupdate script
> > >
> > > Download from the usual place at www.mailscanner.info
> > >
> > > Sorry folks :-(
> > >
> > > At 11:10 03/07/2003, you wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> > Strange, RBL checks stopped happening.  Turning on some debug revealed
> > >> > that none of the entries in the Spam Lists file (spam.lists.conf) were
> > >> > being found due to case mismatch.  Changing everything in
> > >> > spam.lists.conf to lower case fixed the problem and RBL checks are
> > >> > happening again for me.
> > >> >
> > >> > My guess is that the following has something to do with this...
> > >> >  > * Fixes *
> > >> >  > - RBLs are converted to lower-case when read from MailScanner.conf.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Yes, i can confirm this, i upgraded and since that no matches were
> > >> made on
> > >> the Easynet lists i use, after changing to lowercase in the
> > >> spam.lists.conf they are comming in again straight away.
> > >>
> > >> Julian, time for a quick fix i guess :))
> > >>
> > >> Bye,
> > >> Raymond.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Julian Field
> > > www.MailScanner.info
> > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >

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