MailScanner: new Beta release

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 15 12:33:00 IST 2004


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One other thing, I really hope that this time I have cracked the
MIME::Base64 and MIME-tools incompatibility problems. And yes, I know I've
said that before, just no-one's downloading it :-(

At 10:33 15/10/2004, you wrote:
>I have just posted the new beta release of MailScanner version 4.35.4.
>
>The main additions this time are the phishing fraud detector and support
>for installing on Mandrake Linux systems (developed on Mandrake 10).
>
>Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
>Please let me know how you get on.
>
>The full ChangeLog is this:
>
>* New Features and Improvements *
>- SpamAssassin 3 SPF checks are now better supported.
>- Added Disposition-Notification-To and Return-Receipt-To to the list of
>   headers I advise you to remove.
>- Added "Log Silent Viruses" configuration option.
>- Mandrake Linux 10 is now supported by the RPM installation script.
>- Added new configuration option "Find Phishing Fraud". This will scan HTML
>   messages for links which don't link to the site they appear to. This
>   should catch most "phishing" fraud attacks. It uses new text in the
>   languages.conf file, so you will need to add the extra lines to yours.
>- Added support for F-Secure 4.6x.
>- Removed pre-built tnef programs from bin directory of distribution.
>- Moved "virusscan" from "First" to "All".
>
>* Fixes *
>- Fixed bug where filetype checks that matched no rules were not logged
>   properly.
>- Fixed problems with MIME::Base64 dependencies.
>- Fixed bug with @INC path reversal when loading MIME::Base64 and
>   MIME::QuotedPrint.
>- Fixed bug where MCP files were quarantined with the wrong owner.
>- Fixed bug where MCP files were incorrectly logged if they were also spam.
>- Fixed issue where Postfix insisted (quite correctly) on having a space
>   after "Subject:" in the headers.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
>
>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
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