MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.48 released

[Roger Jochem]

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I just upgraded and everything seems to be working fine...

Regards

Roger Jochem

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.48 released


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> I have just released the December version of MailScanner, version 4.48.
> 
> Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info
> 
> The major new features this month are:
> 
> - - The way spam.assassin.prefs.conf is used has changed.
>    **You don't have to worry about this, the install.sh scripts  
> handle it all for you.**
>    The file used to be effectively read by MailScanner specially as  
> SpamAssassin starts up, but there have been various problems with  
> this as it breaks the rules on what SpamAssassin settings can be in  
> what files. The file is now linked into the SpamAssassin directories  
> (/etc/mail/spamassassin on most Linux, for example). It is no longer  
> read specially by MailScanner, it is just read by SpamAssassin as  
> part of its normal startup.
> 
> - - There is a new "Reject Message" configuration option that can cause  
> some messages to be rejected and a rejection report sent back to the  
> original sender of the message. This is designed to be used with a  
> ruleset. Although you can easily configure your MTA (sendmail,  
> Postfix, etc) to do this for you, you only have 1 line to use as the  
> error message. Doing it in MailScanner allows you to send back a  
> polite well-formatted message that can explain to the sender what  
> happened and why. There is a matching "Rejection Report" setting that  
> will set the name and location of the report sent to the sender.
> 
> The full Change Log is this:
> 
> * New Features and Improvements *
> - - Added a new configuration option "Reject Message". This is designed  
> to be
>    used with a ruleset. Any message matching the ruleset will be  
> deleted and
>    the "rejection.report.txt" email message will be sent back to the  
> original
>    sender of the offending message. To save a copy of the message as  
> well as
>    reject it, use the "Archive Mail" setting.
> - - Rearranged SpamAssassin spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, it is now  
> read by
>    SpamAssassin via a link called "mailscanner.cf" in the site_rules  
> directory.
>    It is no longer read directly by MailScanner, it is just read by  
> Spam-
>    Assassin during its normal initialisation process.
> - - Enabled blocking of messages containing web bugs. Note this may  
> have some
>    false alarms, as a web bug is any image of 2x2 or smaller.
> - - Improved ClamAVmodule scanning by adding new suggestions from  
> ClamAV author.
> - - Changed ClamAV parser to not generate warning output when it sees  
> lines it
>    wasn't expected, as there are so many false positives that no-one  
> ever
>    looks at them anyway.
> - - Improved Sophos wrapper script to allow for EM library installations.
>    No support for Sophos V5.0 yet.
> - - Upgraded ClamAV to 0.87.1.
> - - Added HTML::Parser to the list of Perl modules installed by my  
> ClamAV+SA
>    package so it can be used separately from MailScanner, without  
> needing
>    MailScanner to be installed first.
> - - Improved Clam+SA package and other installation scripts to create  
> the soft-
>    link whenever possible.
> - - Rewritten comments at the top of spam.assassin.prefs.conf.
> - - Speed improvement changing &POSIX::WNOHANG to WNOHANG in sub Explode.
> 
> * Fixes *
> - - Added "report-type" MIME attribute to spam notification multipart/ 
> report
>    messages as the RFC says it should be there, and this lacking  
> caused a
>    problem in a few email apps. Thanks for Georg at hackt.net for this.
> - - Added missing ", 0777" from mkdir call in internal TNEF code.
> - - Fixed startup problems reading rulesets from LDAP on first message  
> batch.
> - - Subject lines are all MIME-decoded properly now.
> 
> - -- 
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
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