ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.38.3 released

[Julian Field]

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The only problem found so far is with the new IPBlock code in
CustomConfig.pm which stops "MailScanner -v" working. I've fixed that.

Quentin Campbell wrote:

>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.
>
>
>
>>-----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.
>>
>>

--
Julian Field
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