ANNOUNCE: Unstable 4.30.1

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Apr 14 18:32:55 IST 2004


Of course :-)

At 18:11 14/04/2004, you wrote:
>Is this backward compatible with SA 2.63?
>Thanks,
>Ken A
>
>
>Julian Field wrote:
>
>>Morning all,
>>
>>I hope you have all had a good break and that you are feeling calm and
>>relaxed now (the mailing list has got quite heated in the past week, not
>>good news).
>>
>>I have just released the first beta release of 4.30.
>>I believe I have fixed all the outstanding problems, but I'm sure you will
>>correct me if (when!) I'm wrong.
>>:-)
>>
>>Major new changes are
>>- Support for SpamAssassin version 3
>>- Support for AVG virus scanner
>>- Better timeout handling to find failing "Spam Lists" and SpamAssassin
>>timing out
>>- Zip files can now be located by content or name
>>- upgrade_MailScanner_conf doesn't delete all your custom %variables%
>>- BitDefender support scripts now handle old and new versions automatically
>>
>>Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>>
>>The full ChangeLog is here:
>>* New Features and Improvements *
>>- Zip files can now be located either by filename or by file contents, so
>>   you can effectively control whether your users can avoid zip file
>>checking
>>   by renaming ".zip" to "_zip" for example. Note this does not affect virus
>>   checking, the contents of zip files will still be scanned for viruses.
>>   Note that this works with self-extracting zip files as well. The
>>   configuration option is called "Find Archives By Content" and is on by
>>   default.
>>- The upgrade_MailScanner_conf command now preserves all your custom
>>   %variable% settings.
>>- Added support for Grisoft AVG virus scanner. Thanks to Rick Cooper for
>>his
>>   hard work on this.
>>- Linux cron job scripts added to tarball distribution.
>>- BitDefender wrapper and autoupdate scripts now support both old and new
>>   versions without any modifications needed. They find the version
>>   automatically.
>>- Made the spam tag come before the virus tag on infected messages so that
>>   spam can be dumped more easily automatically.
>>- Tightened up MIME decoder to catch more of the tests at
>>www.testvirus.org.
>>- Added support for SpamAssassin version 3.
>>- Added new configuration options so that RBL's (and SpamAssassin) can have
>>   their network checks disabled is they fail more than a certain
>>fraction of
>>   the time. This is very good for finding unreliable RBL's that don't
>>always
>>   fail and are therefore not found by the "max timeouts" settings.
>>
>>* Fixes *
>>- Debian fix for their different dir structure causing problems with
>>   update_virus_scanners.
>>- Fixed problem where some HTML messages from Yahoo did not have the clean
>>   message signature added to their HTML portion.
>>- Fixed problem with some systems not rewinding file extraction directory
>>   properly.
>>- Fix to get rid of zombie processes quickly and cleanly.
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
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