ANNOUNCE: Version 4.13-1 released

[Julian Field]

Hi folks!

I have just released the latest version 4.13-1.

Highlights this month include

- Script to automate upgrade of MailScanner.conf files
- Option to ignore some Sophos error messages when scanning files
- Option and Custom Function added to enable SQL logging
- Options to block encrypted (or unencrypted) messages
- Customisation of system administrator notices improved
- Improved check_mailscanner script
- Improved stripping of HTML to plain text
- New Nod32 and Kaspersky updaters. F-Prot updater improved

Download it all as usual from www.mailscanner.info.

The full ChangeLog is this:

* New Features and Improvements *
- Written script to automate upgrade of MailScanner.conf files.
- Added "Notices From" configuration option to change the user-visible
   part of the "From" address in the system administrator notices.
- Added "Allowed Sophos Error Messages" configuration option to ignore
   messages containing error messages from Sophos Anti-Virus.
- Added "Always Looked Up Last" configuration option for use with a Custom
   Function that does things at the end of message-processing such as logging
   extra information to a file and/or an SQL database.
- Added "Block Encrypted Messages" configuration option for use with a
   ruleset to ensure your employees are not covertly talking to your
   competitors.
- Added "Block Unencrypted Messages" configuration option for use with a
   ruleset to ensure that all sensitive mail is always encrypted.
- Improvements to check_mailscanner for most OS's except Linux.
- Improved check_MailScanner script to have "-q" (quiet) option, and changed
   cron job to use it rather than always ignore all output.
- Added check to ensure user's home directory exists and is writable to
   protect against SpamAssassin startup failing quietly.
- Improved stripping HTML to plain-text to ensure links have a whitespace
   immediately after them to ease the job of email clients.
- Improved RPM to detect upgrades and inform users about
   upgrade_MailScanner_conf script.
- Improved F-Prot autoupdater to not block MailScanner if first contact to
   update server locks up.
- Added Nod32 autoupdater.
- Added Kaspersky autoupdater with workaround for their script bugs.
- Increased "Minimum Code Status" for various scanners.
- Improved rulesets to allow optional '.' on the end of addresses.
- Per-domain/per-user spam black+white listing Custom Functions now support
   IP addresses as well as email addresses and email domains.
- Improved docs and rules EXAMPLES a bit after suggestions from users.
- Upgraded external TNEF decoder program to latest version 1.1.4.
- Added logging of child processes dying of old age.

* Fixes *
- Fix to permissions and not over-writing /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner when
   upgrading MailScanner RPM.
- Fix to "nodeps" switch in install.sh.
- Fix to sophos-autoupdate to use "warning" syslog priority, not "warn".
- Fixed filename checking of attachments within winmail.dat TNEF files.
- Changed RAV support to ravav instead of ravlin8 to circumvent GTK+.
- Fixed RAV support as it appears to dislike having no stdin.
- Improved configuration file reader to allow upper+lower case values.
- Fixed "$file" instead of "$filename" errors in Danish reports.

Any problems, give me a shout as usual :-)
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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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