Released beta 4.40.4

Rick Cooper rcooper at DWFORD.COM
Sun Mar 13 16:08:15 GMT 2005 

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Julian,

I was just looking into this myself. In my case it is caused by Exim.pm line
764:

Can't use string ("Received: from sahomelt.internal") as a HASH ref while
"strict refs" in use at /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Exim.pm line 764


Rick



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 11:01 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Released beta 4.40.4
>
>
> Daniel Bird wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Bother. Can you put it in debug mode, then stop it, then
> check_MailScanner and see what it says please? It may be one message
> causing it trouble, please can you let me know what you find.
>
> >
> > 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!).
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Julian Field
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> >>> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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> >>
> >> Daniel Bird
> >> Network and Systems Manager
> >> Department Of Information Services
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> >>
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> >>
> >> Everything is possible....except skiing through a revolving door.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> content by MailScanner at danbird.net and is believed to be clean.
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> >
> > Daniel Bird
> > Network and Systems Manager
> > 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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> >
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> >
> > Everything is possible....except skiing through a revolving door.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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