Beta 4.39.1 released

[Peter Russell]

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Thanka a lot - no, i dont run the betas :)

Pete

Julian Field wrote:
> The biggest single feature you are missing is the "phishing net" which
> is acknowledged by other people to be at the forefront of the phishing
> detection market. That opinion is from people who work with governments
> and major banks. But I would wait for the stable 4.39 unless you want to
> run the latest beta, due to a phishing net bugfix.
>
> Peter Russell wrote:
>
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I am using 4.29-7 on FreeBSd - is it worth upgrading to latest stable
>> yet? I realise there are new features, but do the newer version have a
>> hugely better chance of stopping more spam and viruses?
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is an upgrade guide for FreeBSD anywhere? Can
>> i just do a portupgrade ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Pete
>>
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>> I have just released the first beta of the next version of MailScanner,
>>> 4.39.1.
>>>
>>> There have been a little collection of relatively important fixes in
>>> this release, especially for users of the phishing net who may have seen
>>> occasional messages with the body of the HTML email appearing to be
>>> mostly blank.
>>>
>>> Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>>>
>>> The full Change Log is this:
>>> * New Features and Improvements *
>>> - If the AttachmentWarning message put into a message is empty
>>> (zero-length)
>>>  then the empty attachment won't be added to the message at all.
>>> - Added scanning of PE's by default to clamavmodule scanner.
>>> - Added feature when IP address in a ruleset has all 4 numbers, so
>>> that a
>>>  full string match is done against the client IP, not a substring match.
>>> - Added support for output from latest F-Prot.
>>>
>>> * Fixes *
>>> - Corrected problem with <a> tags that have no text contents and no
>>> </a>.
>>> - 2 minor typos in the Swedish reports.
>>> - Changed check_MailScanner to check_mailscanner in cron job.
>>> - Fixed problem where files with no extension, inside a zip file, were
>>>  extracted with ".dat" added onto the end of them.
>>> - Fixed problem with phishing net being confused by some malformed URLs.
>>>
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