ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.38.3 released

[Julian Field]

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Evening all!

I have just released beta version 4.38.3.

Please don't run it on production systems for the next 24 hours or so,
unless you know what you are doing and can retreat to your previous
version easily. Any problems will probably appear in the first 24 hours
of the release, due to the very kind testing done by many of you which
all helps.

The main new features are

- Added "Phishing Safe Sites File" configuration setting to point to a file
  containing a list of fully-qualified hostnames which are ignored in the
  phishing detection tests. Any links to any of these hostnames are ignored
  in the phishing tests.
- Added "Also Find Numeric Phishing" setting (on by default) so that all
  numeric IP addresses in links are flagged as being dangerous.

- Any entry in the "Archive Mail" setting can contain _DATE_ which will be
  replaced with the current date in yyyymmdd form, so you can backup or move
  yesterday's archive safely knowing that it won't be written to today.
- Postfix support added to "IPBlock" functionality for SMTP connection
  throttling. Many thanks to Rakesh for writing this.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info

The full Change Log is:

* New Features and Improvements *
- Upgraded to MIME-tools 5.416.
- Added new filename restrictions using Microsoft vulnerability report
from AUScert.
- Improved /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner so that it finds Incoming Work Dir and
  Incoming Queue Dir automatically from MailScanner.conf file.
- Can now use $from, $id and $subject in inline signature for signing clean
  messages.
- Any entry in the "Archive Mail" setting can contain _DATE_ which will be
  replaced with the current date in yyyymmdd form, so you can backup or move
  yesterday's archive safely knowing that it won't be written to today.
- Added zero score for ALL_TRUSTED rule in SpamAssassin as it is known to
  cause problems.
- Added "Also Find Numeric Phishing" setting (on by default) so that all
  numeric IP addresses in links are flagged as being dangerous.
- Added "$postmastername" to the list of variables available in many
reports.
- ClamAV -autoupdate script now logs all warnings and errors from freshclam.
- Postfix support added to "IPBlock" functionality for SMTP connection
  throttling. Many thanks to Rakesh for writing this.
- Updated German translations. Many thanks to Felix for doing this.
- Added PDF version of new MailScanner advertising "flyer".
- Added "Log Dangerous HTML Tags" configuration setting, and removed old
  "Log IFrame Tags" configuration setting, so that all potentially dangerous
  HTML tags are now logged. This helps when you are developing your white-
  list of safe sources of HTML tags, such as newsletters and daily cartoons.
- Added "Phishing Safe Sites File" configuration setting to point to a file
  containing a list of fully-qualified hostnames which are ignored in the
  phishing detection tests. Any links to any of these hostnames are ignored
  in the phishing tests.

* Fixes *
- Fixed problem where some spam was delivered even if the Spam Actions
was set
  to "store delete" if the messages were not to be virus-scanned.
- Fixed harmless uninitialised variables in HTML disarming.
- Removed 2nd copy of tnef sources from tar distribution.

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Julian Field
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