MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.48 released

Mon Dec 5 20:06:05 GMT 2005

Julian,

Since I never use the install.sh script (a long story), I did this
by hand and got:

/opt/perl5/etc/mail/spamassassin

I was expecting /etc/mail/spamassassin.  Scratched head, went and
looked at this stuff.  It was something old and crusty (circa 2003)
from SA long ago.  I moved this /opt/perl5/etc out of the way then
got /etc/mail/spamassassin on the next try.  What I expected.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:43:20 +0000
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.48 released
> 
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> I hope you don't mind, I will publish this to the list for other
> people too.
>
> What you need to do is this:
>
> perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e 'print Mail::SpamAssassin->new-
> >first_existing_path(@Mail::SpamAssassin::site_rules_path)'
> (all of that is on 1 line)
>
> This will print out a directory name if you have SpamAssassin installed.
> Say it prints out
> 	/etc/mail/spamassassin
> and you have MailScanner installed in /usr/local/MailScanner, then
> you want to do
> 	ln -s -f /usr/local/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf /etc/
> mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
> (again all on 1 line).
>
> To put it a different way, say the perl command outputs directory SA,
> and your MailScanner etc directory is in directory MS, then you want to
> 	ln -s -f MS/spam.assassin.prefs.conf SA/mailscanner.cf
>
>
> On 2 Dec 2005, at 11:36, Grigorios G. Papazoglou wrote:
>
>> Hi Julian,
>> since in my current installation is rather difficult (for me at the
>> moment) to use the install.sh script, could you please let me know
>> the necessary manual action (if I am to upgrade to 4.48) as far as
>> spam.assassin.prefs.conf is concerned?
>> Thanks
>>
>> Julian Field wrote:
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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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>>
>> --
>> Grigorios G. Papazoglou
>> System Administrator
>> Faculty of Medicine
>> University of Crete
>> Heraklion 710 03
>> GREECE
>> Telephone: +30 (281) 0394748
>> E-mail: grp at med.uoc.gr
>
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> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
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