MailScanner ANNOUNCE beta 4.37.6

[Mark Nienberg]

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Julian Field wrote:

>
> The full Change Log is this:
>
> * New Features and Improvements *
> - When stripping HTML messages to plain text, the contents of script and
>  style tags are omitted.
> - Phishing net improved to ignore email addresses.
> - Now supports split sendmail queues where any incoming mqueue.in
> directory
>  can have qf, df, xf, tf subdirectories, each containing the appropriate
>  type of file for each message. This will greatly speed operation on big
>  queues as the directories will be less than half the size of a combined
>  queue directory.
> - New option "Keep Spam And MCP Archive Clean" which forces it to
> virus scan
>  all spam that is quarantined. Any spam (or MCP messages) found to be
> virus-
>  infected are removed from the quarantine, so you can safely let your
> users
>  have access to the spam archive safe in the knowledge that they
> cannot get
>  any viruses out of it.
>  Note: This feature is disabled by default, as most people won't want the
>        performance hit of all the extra scanning, as they don't their
> users
>        access to the spam quarantine anyway.
> - Changed Postfix handling so that "Archive Mail" feature creates files
>  with unique names so that re-used message-ids don't cause overwriting of
>  older files in the same day with the same message-id.
> - Spam and MCP actions (and of course their non- and high-scoring-
> alternatives
>  can now include extra headers which are added in each case. These entire
>  headers must be contained in double quotes. So for example, you can have
>  Spam Actions = header "X-Spam-Status: yes" deliver
>  and the message will be delivered but with the extra header
>    X-Spam-Status: yes
>  added to the message.
>
> * Fixes *
> - Fixed sendmail and ZMailer problem where subject lines starting with a
>  line-break were not tagged correctly.
> - Fixed minor problems with multi-line Subject: headers.
> - Fixed bugs with some MTAs when keeping spam archive clean.
> - %vars% in MailScanner.conf are now handled properly in "other"
> settings.
> - Fixed problem with correctly removing Phishing frauds from badly
> formatted
>  html with missing <a> tags before corresponding </a>.
> - Fixed problem with message duplication on some sendmail systems.
> - Worked around Perl bug causing crashes with a few bounces from Hotmail.
>
Although it isn't listed in the changelog, I assume this version has the
SPF fix introduced in 4.37.3 on Dec 14.

Mark Nienberg

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