Released beta 4.40.4

[Daniel Bird]

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Julian Field wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have just released a new beta-test version, 4.40.4.
>
Been running for about 2 hours and seems fine.

Dan

> This release is mainly for fixes to the Bayes database rebuilding, and
> for more Postfix testing.
>
> I have replaced my spam.assassin.prefs.conf and now use a very slightly
> modified version of the one provided by Fortress Systems (thanks
> Steve!). The change is to maintain compatibility with all previous
> versions that keep their Bayes files in ~/.spamassassin.
>
> Also the RAR archive handling is greatly improved.
>
> Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
> The full Change Log is:
> * New Features and Improvements *
> - The "clamavmodule" scanner cannot unpack archives of RAR version 3.
>  2 new configuration settings allow you to unpack the latest RAR archives
>  for testing by the "clamavmodule" scanner.
>  It also enables the contents of the RAR archive to be checked for
> illegal
>  filenames and filetypes, and also to see if they are password-protected.
>  Unrar Command = /usr/bin/unrar
>  Unrar Timeout = 50
> - "Allow Password-protected Archives" can now be a ruleset when using the
>  clamavmodule virus scanner.
> - Multiple "Subject:" lines are removed. The 1st one is kept.
> - If the "Unrar Command" is defined and points to an executable program,
>  it will automatically be used by the "clamav" scanner. No -wrapper
>  tweaking is needed to do this any more.
> - You can now use shell environment variables such as $HOSTNAME or
>  ${HOSTNAME} in MailScanner.conf and its relatives.
> - More improvements to the phishing net.
> - More additions to the starter phishing.safe.sites.conf file.
> - Removed my spam.assassin.prefs.conf file in favour of the one from
>  www.fsl.com, with just enough changes to produce an identical file
>  layout to my previous versions.
> - Re-enabled ALL_TRUSTED rule after comments from Matt Kettler. Thanks!
> - Added long comment about ALL_TRUSTED rule, many thanks to Matt Kettler.
> - Improved screen behaviour of RPM-based init.d script.
> - Greatly improved RAR archive handler, thanks to Rick Cooper.
>
> * Fixes *
> - Fixed problem with missing Attachment-Warning when encountering a virus
>  that is both silent and non-forging.
> - Improved output format of Sender warning, and removed duplicate lines.
> - In IPBlock facility, changed MTA dsn to 451 to temporarily refuse the
>  connections, rather than the total block it used to do.
> - Removed erroneous log output from SpamAssassin bayes-rebuilder.
> - Postfix problem fixes.
> - Fixed SpamAssassin Bayes database rebuild timeout problem (hopefully!).
>
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