MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.42.9 released - bug not fixed

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jun 1 15:09:28 IST 2005


According to the code, it should work for MCP but not for spam.
This is weird.

What are your MCP actions? And your Spam actions?

On 1 Jun 2005, at 14:59, Quentin Campbell wrote:

> Julian
>
> Have installed 4.42.9 but the fix you announced for the "Delete" MCP
> action is not working.
>
> Test messages are being caught by MCP and are not delivered  
> according to
> the logs but there is no explicit MCP "Delete" action record being
> logged.
>
> Quentin
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
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>     Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.42.9 released
>
>
>     I have just released the latest stable release of MailScanner.
>
>     The major new features this month are
>
>     - Panda support completely rewritten (thanks to Rick Cooper!).
>     - New options to tag Subject: line of HTML mail that has been
> disarmed.
>     - Can now set the number of "Spam Lists" that are hit before the
> message is treated as spam.
>     - Now passes the testvirus.org "null MIME-boundary" test.
>
>     You can download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
>     The full Change Log is this:
>
>     * New Features and Improvements *
>     - Now automatically detects and warns if the "Incoming Work
> Directory"
>       setting contains any links. It also corrects the path (but not
> in the
>       MailScanner.conf file) and continues to work properly.
>     - Added support for Sophos 3.93.2. You must use the
> sophos-autoupdate from
>       this version if you want Sophos to work (both the sophos and
> sophossavi
>       scanner settings).
>     - Tar and RPM distribution installation scripts now look for
> gtar if GNU
>       tar was not found, and is happy if /usr/local/bin/perl and
> /usr/bin/perl
>       point to the same place.
>     - SophosSAVI errors are detected as if they were viruses, and
> are not
>       ignored.
>     - Panda support completely reimplemented a lot better by Rick
> Cooper.
>     - Upgraded File::Temp, Compress::Zlib and ExtUtils-MakeMaker to
> latest
>       releases.
>     - New options "Disarmed Modify Subject" and "Disarmed Subject
> Text" now
>       provide the ability to alter the Subject: line if any HTML
> tags in the
>       body of the message were disarmed (by having their "Allow ....
> Tags" set
>       to "disarm". This is switched on by default.
>     - New option "Spam Lists To Be Spam" now provides the ability to
> set how
>       many Spam Lists a message must appear in before it is
> considered to be
>       spam. The default is 1 as that mimics the previous behaviour.
>     - Improved output of SuSE MailScanner init.d script.
>     - Reversed spam and disarm tags to leave spam tag at start of
> Subject:.
>
>     * Fixes*
>     - Fixed problem that could cause harmless header files to be
> left in the
>       temporary working directories when using Postfix.
>     - Fixed problem where attachment size checks were made on the
> contents of
>       zip files and not just the zip files themselves.
>     - Hopefully fixed problem with ClamAV missing Worm.Sober.P
> occasionally.
>     - No longer import missing whine method from MIME-tools.
>     - Fixed problems with incomplete reporting of viruses in zip
> files.
>     - Fixed problem with "Delete" MCP action not being logged in
> syslog.
>     - Fixed problem with the "null MIME boundary" vulnerability
> test.
>     - Added check to upgrade_MailScanner_conf and
> upgrade_langages_conf so they
>       check to ensure all input files have content before starting.
>     - Fixed bug where clean header was being applied to unscanned
> mail when using
>       virus scanning rulesets.
>     - Fixed wrong build number for 1 Perl module in install.sh
> scripts.
>     - Fixed typo in upgrade_MailScanner_conf.
>     - Made significant changes to child worker process management
> and re-spawning,
>       to try to avoid problems reported by a few users with
> MailScanner "slowly
>       stopping working" over the space of several hours.
>
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