ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.38.3 released

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
    Also for ChangeLog file:

- Added Eicar test virus to non-forging Virus list.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:39:52 +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: ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.38.3 released
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Julian Field
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