ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.38.3 released

[Julian Field]

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Added.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> 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
>> www.MailScanner.info
>> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
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>>
>> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>>
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