ANNOUNCE: MailScanner Stable 4.34.8 released

[Julian Field]

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Morning all,

I have just released a new stable version 4.34.8.

When installing this release, you *MUST* upgrade to MIME-tools 5.413 and
MIME-Base64 3.03, MailScanner can no longer be compatible with previous
versions of these packages. This finally gets rid of all the patches
required to MIME-tools.

Lots of new features this month, the main ones are:

- Added "Bounce Spam As Attachment" and "Bounce MCP As Attachment" options.
- Added "Remove These Headers" setting.
- Added MIME-tools 5.413 and MIME-Base64 3.03. *****You must have these
installed.*****
- Added 4 new MCP options: "MCP Modify Subject", "MCP Subject Text",
   "High Scoring MCP Modify Subject", "High Scoring MCP Subject Text".
- Added a "generic" virus scanner. This enables you to write your own
   virus (or other "nasty content") scanner.
- Added a new setting "First Check" so you can control whether the MCP or
   the spam checks are done first.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info

The full ChangeLog is this:

* New Features and Improvements *
- Added "Bounce Spam As Attachment" and "Bounce MCP As Attachment" options.
   These will cause the original message (up to the Max SpamAssassin Size so
   it cannot be used for denial-of-service attacks) to be included in the
   bounced message as an RFC/822 attachment, which some mail clients can read
   very nicely. This lets the original sender see what message got bounced.
- Updated the Qmail support. See opencomputing.sf.net for more info on Qmail.
- Changed default supplied values for a few settings. This will have no effect
   on upgraded installations, but will improve resource use for new
   installations, such as not quarantining silent viruses which is pretty
   much a waste of disk space and i/o load.
- Added POSIX back-compatibility switches to scripts wanting to use "tail".
- Added "Remove These Headers" setting to allow arbitrary headers, such as
   delivery receipt requests, to be removed from mail.
- Implemented MCP support for SpamAssassin 3.0.0.
- Published packages for RPM and non-RPM systems to install ClamAV and
   SpamAssassin 3.
- Adapted code to run with MIME-tools 5.412.
- Removed most of the MIME-tools version checks as the new code doesn't
   specify versions for its components.
- Added a load more optional modules to the version number list so we get
   all the modules required by SpamAssassin 3 and Mail::ClamAV.
- Added MIME-tools 5.413 and MIME-Base64 3.03. You must have these installed.
- Updated Catalan reports.
- Added support for NOD32 2.04.
- Added $longspamreport to sender.spam.sa report.
- Update Trend-autoupdate script so it supports Trend's new opr.ini file.
- Added 4 new MCP options to provide the same subject line modifications as
   you can do with spam messages: "MCP Modify Subject", "MCP Subject Text",
   "High Scoring MCP Modify Subject", "High Scoring MCP Subject Text".
   The defaults are the same as for spam.
- Added a "generic" virus scanner. This enables you to write your own
   virus (or other "nasty content") scanner, which produces input which is
   read by MailScanner and used to mark certain files as virus-infected.
   The spec of what output is required from your scanner is in the
   "generic-wrapper" script. It's very simple to use.
- When a child process is HUPped it will now attempt to kill any running
   child scanner processes, to avoid problems with uvscan consuming 100% CPU.
- Timeout code added to AntiVir updating script.
- Added a new setting "First Check" so you can control whether the MCP or
   the spam checks are done first. It is MCP by default as that is how it has
   run in the past, but you may well want to do spam checks first if you
   delete most spam.

* Fixes *
- Fixed another Postfix perl buffering error on a few OS's.
- Added remaining MCP definitions to languages.conf files.
- Fixed installation problems with MIME-Base64.
- Fixed bug in Exim.pm where case of MAIL sender wasn't properly preserved.
- Fixed problem causing bitdefender-autoupdate to hang.
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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store

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