ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.38.3 released

[Quentin Campbell]

Julian

So far, so good.

Installed 4.38.3-1 on one of our 8 production mail gateways this
afternoon.

Running OK and as expected.

System is RH AS 3 running on a Compaq DL380.

Quentin 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: 18 January 2005 19:40
>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.
>
>--
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