ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.29.7 released

[Julian Field]

I have just released stable 4.29.7.

The highlights are:

- More robust MIME decoding, should catch postmaster bounces a lot better
   when they include the entire message with broken MIME headers.
- <Script> tags in HTML message bodies can now be filtered out or disarmed,
   just like what can be done already with <Form> tags and similar.
- Now unpacks self-extracting Zip archives.
- Now decodes binhex-encoded attachments, as well as binhex-encoded data
   hidden in the text portion of a message.
- Postfix support for latest snapshots implemented.

There are many other changes and additions, please see the Changelog at the
bottom of this message.

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The full Changelog for 4.29 is this:

* New Features and Improvements *
- More robust MIME decoding, should catch postmaster bounces a lot better
   when they include the entire message with broken MIME headers.
- Clam -wrapper script adds /usr/ucb to end of $PATH for Solaris users.
- Moved cron job maximum update delay to /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner so it
   is preserved across upgrades.
- <Script> tags in HTML message bodies can now be filtered out or disarmed,
   just like what can be done already with <Form> tags and similar.
- <Object Data> tags handled as well as <Object Codebase> tags.
- Now unpacks self-extracting Zip archives.
- Now logs when a message is whitelisted.
- Added example rule for matching *@domain.com and *@*.domain.com in 1 rule.
- Now decodes binhex-encoded attachments, as well as binhex-encoded data
   hidden in the text portion of a message.
- McAfee wrapper script now detects extra.dat and uses it if present.
- Implemented support for a directory full of Custom Functions files, these
   will all be used automatically if present in the directory.
   Uses new "Custom Functions Dir" setting to point to the directory.
- Simplified logging of invalid message files.
- Improved error messages relating to Custom Functions directory.
- Rewrote Bayes database rebuilder to be able to capture its error messages.
- Zip archives detection improved to work by content rather than filename.
- Added "$longspamreport" to the inline.spam.warning.txt to let you add the
   table of rules information into a spam "attachment" action.
- Added support for Wietse's little "additions" to his Postfix queue files.
   Why he won't just document this stuff defeats me.

* Fixes *
- When not checking archives at all, they are now passed through correctly.
- Max Archive Depth should have been settable per-message.
- F-Prot output parser re-fixed so that it lets through password-encrypted
   archives as it should. Don't know what I was thinking when I blocked them
   here :-(
- Various waiting speedups by JJH.
- More speedups by me :-)
- Fixed problem with messages with lots of attachments being labelled as
   being nested too deep.
- Postfix support for latest snapshots implemented.
- Fixed problem where MSP+spam actions = delete ==> mail not delivered.
- Trial fix for problem where virtual domains weren't always used in Postfix.
- Fixed problem where bad TNEF messages were not always removed completely.
- Fixed problem where some circumstance server would quarantine warning
   instead of infected message.
- Fix to SpamAssassin "last hop" RBL checking for ZMailer.
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Julian Field
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