Released beta 4.40.4

[Daniel Bird]

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Daniel Bird wrote:

> 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.


I lied. Seems it got itself in a loop, continually rescanning messages.
Had to revert. Will test tomorrow.

Dan

>
> 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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Daniel Bird
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Department Of Information Services
St. George's Hospital Medical School
Tooting
London SW17 0RE

P: +44 20 8725 2897
F: +44 20 8725 3583
E: dan at sghms.ac.uk
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