vexira

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Apr 2 09:15:49 IST 2004


As and when I get time.

At 08:41 02/04/2004, you wrote:
>I'm really sorry about this: I've simply replied to your email...
>
>Do you think you could work on it in the near future?
>
>Bye,
>Gabriele
>
>
>Please don't post followups to the announcements list. All followups should
>go to the main mailing list. I haven't done Vexira support yet. To be
>entirely honest, I forgot about it.
>
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> >Julian,
> >I don't want to disturb you, but I would really like to install this new
> >stable release.
> >
> >I wonder if you could tell me if Vexira support has been included. I
> >haven't found anything about it in the release notes of any version, and
> >there is nothing on the website.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Gabriele
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> >Sent: giovedì 1 aprile 2004 11.16
> >To: MAILSCANNER-ANNOUNCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.29.7 released
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
> >
> >In March, MailScanner was downloaded over 23,000 times and the web site
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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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> >From: "Gabriele Oleotti" <goleotti at misag.it>
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> >Julian,
> >I don't want to disturb you, but I would really like to install this new
> >stable release.
> >
> >I wonder if you could tell me if Vexira support has been included. I
> >haven't found anything about it in the release notes of any version, and
> >there is nothing on the website.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Gabriele
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> >Sent: giovedì 1 aprile 2004 11.16
> >To: MAILSCANNER-ANNOUNCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.29.7 released
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
> >
> >In March, MailScanner was downloaded over 23,000 times and the web site
> >access from over 70,000 different sites!
> >
> >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.
> >--
> >Julian Field
> >www.MailScanner.info
> >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> >PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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