ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.24 released

[Julian Field]

At 16:16 06/10/2003, you wrote:
>Great news!!
>
>BTW, you forgot to link to the PGP signature from the download page:
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/tar/MailScanner-4.24-
>5.tar.gz.sig

Oops, sorry. Fixed now. Knew I would forget something :-)

>Other thing regarding the PGP signature... I think it'd be better if you post
>the ASCII armoured signature, which can be manually copied from the browser
>and pasted elsewhere, rather than the binary sig.

Done. Have changed them to ASCII and will use that from now on.


>Regards.
>
>El 6 Oct 2003 a las 9:41, Julian Field escribió:
>
> > Morning all!
> >
> > I have just posted 4.24-5 on the website.
> >
> > Major improvements this time are, for example,
> >
> > --  Emergency queue-handling mode for rapid processing of very large mail
> > queues.
> > --  Check of number of attachments on a message to prevent a DoS attack.
> > --  New rule type in Filename and Filetype checking, so some files can just
> > be deleted and not quarantined, which saves disk space.
> > --  Several new example Custom Functions to implement things like per-IP
> > messages per hour to save you being bombarded with viruses from just a few
> > IP addresses, high speed implementation of several configuration options
> > which will work faster when using huge rulesets.
> >
> > There are loads of other improvements as well.
> >
> > When upgrading your MailScanner.conf using upgrade_MailScanner_conf, please
> > read the usage message carefully. By default it will now not copy all the
> > comments from the old file to the new one, so that you get to see any new
> > features in the behaviour of configuration options. If you want to use all
> > the old comments instead of the new ones, you need to add "--keep-comments"
> > to the command line.
> >
> > Download it from www.mailscanner.info.
> >
> > The ChangeLog is here:
> >
> > * New Features and Improvements *
> > - Added option "SpamScore Number Instead Of Stars" so that the spam stars
> >    header can be replaced by a number specifying the score instead.
> > - Added "Max Normal Queue Size" setting so that MailScanner will switch 
> into
> >    a faster mode when collecting messages. This will stop it processing
> >    messages in order of date, and just pick them apparently randomly 
> from the
> >    queue. This may delay some messages considerably, so set it so it is 
> only
> >    used in emergencies. It should be at least several thousand. After 
> the queue
> >    has shrunk below the threshold size, it continues to stay in this 
> mode for
> >    another 40 batches in an attempt to completely clear the queue.
> > - Added "Maximum Attachments Per Message" setting so that messages which
> >    accidentally have thousands of attachments are rejected. I have seen 
> this
> >    happen on 1 MTA when repeatedly bouncing a message between 2 addresses,
> >    enclosing the headers in a new attachment every time.
> > - Filename and Filetype allow/deny rules files now have a third option in
> >    addition to 'deny' and 'allow', you can now do 'deny+delete' (or any 
> word
> >    containing 'deny' and 'delete'). This will stop the denied attachment
> >    from being quarantined. Very useful against Sobig worm as you can
> >    'deny+delete \.pif$' to simply strip all PIF files without quarantining
> > them.
> > - Added Custom Function to implement per-IP messages-per-hour rate 
> limiting.
> >    See CustomConfig.pm for more details (IPBlock).
> > - Added Custom Function to implement high-speed "spam List" and "Spam 
> Domain
> >    List" lookups for use with very large rulesets. There are some 
> restrictions
> >    on the types of rule you are allowed, see the code comments for more
> >    details (FastSpamList and FastSpamDomainList).
> > - The subject line text for tagging spam can now include "_SCORE_" 
> which will
> >    be replaced with the numeric spam score.
> > - For use with the "attachment" spam action, changed "digest" to "report"
> >    to encourage MUAs to display the message correctly.
> > - Improved handling of "Filename Rules" and "Filetype Rules" so they are
> >    just-in-time compiled, which is needed when using Custom Functions 
> for them.
> >
> > - Added support for Kaspersky 4.5.0. This is totally different to all
> >    previous versions, bless them :( It's more sane though.
> > - Sophos-autoupdate fixed up for Sophos 3.74 and its international swpmess
> > file.
> > - Improved sophos-wrapper to handle multi-lingual output of Sophos 3.74.
> > - Updated F-Secure parser for 4.51.
> > - Added Solaris check to update_virus_scanners for xpg4 path.
> > - New update to Tony Finch's mcafee-autoupdate script.
> > - F-Prot updater improved so downloading happens while MailScanner is 
> running
> >    normally. Lock out only happens for a fraction of a second.
> > - Improved rav-autoupdate so it times out after 5 minutes.
> > - Changed default waiting time in init.d script restart operation to 10 
> secs.
> >
> > - Added client IP address logging of infected messages.
> > - Changed the default values relating to warning senders about what 
> happened
> >    to their message.
> > - eTrust added to OS vs virus-scanners grid table.
> > - Added new Debian package to downloads and news.
> > - Dutch reports updated with better translations.
> > - Spanish reports updated with better translations.
> > - Documentation now includes link to Mail Process Flow Diagram.
> > - Added "--keep-comments" command-line option to "upgrade_MailScanner_conf"
> >    command. By default this is off so you get to read about all the new
> >    whizzy options that can be used with existing configuration options.
> >
> > * Fixes*
> > - Opened logging in f-prot-autoupdate so status logging happens.
> > - Fixed typo in Config.pm.
> > - changed SA and MCP pre-compilation code so it should now handle the 
> bugs in
> >    this area of SpamAssassin. Am awaiting response on a fix to SA for this.
> > - Undone previous fix, SA have fixed their code in RC4.
> > - Oh no they haven't. Still buggy in their released code too :-(
> > - Fixed bug in quote replacement in SQL logging in CustomConfig.pm.
> > - Fixed typo in log text in 1 rule in filename.rules.conf.
> > - Added fix for bug in message handling on busy Postfix systems.
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC  7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
>
>--
>Mariano Absatz
>El Baby
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.
>       -- W.C. Fields

-- 
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC  7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654