ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.25-7 released

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Nov 14 14:16:21 GMT 2003


At 12:58 14/11/2003, you wrote:
>One final thing - I'm trying to get the new Quarantine Permissions features
>to work with MailWatch.
>
>I've set:
>
>Run As User: root
>Run As Group: root
>Quarantine User: root
>Quarantine Group: apache
>Quarantine Permissions: 0660
>
>And I get:
>
>-rw-rw----    1 root     root         2057 Nov 14 12:36 hxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>                                  ^^^^
>
>Bug? - or have I done something wrong?

I've just tried it here with the same settings and it works fine. Can you
change the Quarantine User at all?



>Kind regards,
>Steve.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Freegard [mailto:steve.freegard at LBSLTD.CO.UK]
>Sent: 14 November 2003 12:42
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.25-7 released
>
>
>Further to this:
>
>I should've mentioned that I upgraded to clamav-0.65 at the same time and
>installed the Mail::ClamAV module as well.
>
>So after upgrading I had:
>
>Virus Scanners = sophossavi clamavmodule
>
>Which is when I started to get the log messages as below - reverting back to
>using the 'clamav' command-line scanner seems to fix the problem and get the
>messages delivered.
>
>Kind regards,
>Steve.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Freegard [mailto:steve.freegard at LBSLTD.CO.UK]
>Sent: 14 November 2003 12:37
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.25-7 released
>
>
>Hi Julian,
>
>Just upgraded - bit of a problem now - keep seeing this in the log:
>
>Nov 14 12:33:42 mailscanner MailScanner[14138]: Your virus.scanners.conf
>file does not  have 3 words on each line. See if you  have an old one left
>over by mistake.
>
>/etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf:
>
>antivir         /usr/lib/MailScanner/antivir-wrapper    /usr/lib/AntiVir
>bitdefender     /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-wrapper /usr/local/bd7
>clamav          /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper     /usr/local
>command         /usr/lib/MailScanner/command-wrapper    /usr
>etrust          /usr/lib/MailScanner/etrust-wrapper     /opt/eTrustAntivirus
>f-prot          /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-wrapper     /usr/local/f-prot
>f-secure        /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-secure-wrapper   /opt/f-secure/fsav
><<snip>>
>
>And nothing is being delivered!!
>
>Kind regards,
>Steve.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: 14 November 2003 11:49
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.25-7 released
>
>
>Morning all,
>
>I've just released the latest beta/unstable version 4.25-7.
>
>Main addition since the last beta is the addition of support for the ClamAV
>perl module, which means no external programs have to be started every time
>ClamAV is invoked. Should be noticeably faster.
>
>There also a whole bunch of other fixes and additions, which are detailed in
>the ChangeLog included below.
>
>Expect a stable release soon, but please do test this version and check that
>it works okay. Thanks!
>
>Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info
>
>ChangeLog for 4.25:
>
>* New Features and Improvements *
>- Panda version 7.0 supported.
>- Added dependency on Net::CIDR module so could add support for more ways of
>    specifying IP ranges in rulesets. Can now do all of:
>          152.78.
>          /^152\.78/
>          152.78.0.0/16
>          152.78.0.0-152.78.255.255
>- Added support for "disarm" option on all HTML tag detectors, which will
>    disarm those tags while leaving the rest of the HTML intact.
>- Added support for retrieving configuration from LDAP.
>- Changed SpamAssassin timeout handler to kill processes and not process
>group.
>- Added support for changing uid, gid and permissions of both Incoming Work
>    Dir and Quarantine Dir.
>- Improved ClamAV parser to handle errors printed when processing viruses
>    containing corrupted zip files.
>- Improved documentation in virus.scanners.conf.
>- Improved documentation of "disarm" configuration settings.
>- Added optimisation to LDAP ruleset compiler that identifies 1-line
>rulesets
>    which hold the default value.
>- Added support for Mail::ClamAV perl module, enabling ClamAV to scan
>without
>    having to call any external programs at all.
>
>* Fixes*
>- RPM distribution install.sh script now checks and creates pod2text
>properly.
>- Fixed bug whereby the same message files could be deleted more than once,
>    which could delete unprocessed messages using MTAs that name files after
>    the inode and not the time.
>- Syslogging should now start successfully on all versions of Solaris and
>IRIX.
>- Bug fix in Postfix file handling code from Stefan Baltus which will
>    hopefully patch up the last Solaris Postfix problem.
>- Fixed bug that broke rulesets in earlier betas.
>
>
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
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