Released beta 4.40.4

Sun Mar 13 16:22:33 GMT 2005

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Please can you send me a message that causes this.

Rick Cooper wrote:

>Julian,
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>I was just looking into this myself. In my case it is caused by Exim.pm line
>764:
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>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
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>Rick
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>>-----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
>>>>>www.MailScanner.info
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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
>>>>____________________________________
>>>>
>>>>Computing Services Homepage:
>>>>http://www.intranet.sghms.ac.uk/depts/is/cu/
>>>>
>>>>The Computing Services Handbook:
>>>>http://www.intranet.sghms.ac.uk/depts/is/cu/handbook2003-4.pdf
>>>>
>>>>Everything is possible....except skiing through a revolving door.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous
>>>>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
>>>____________________________________
>>>
>>>Computing Services Homepage:
>>>http://www.intranet.sghms.ac.uk/depts/is/cu/
>>>
>>>The Computing Services Handbook:
>>>http://www.intranet.sghms.ac.uk/depts/is/cu/handbook2003-4.pdf
>>>
>>>Everything is possible....except skiing through a revolving door.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
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>>believed to be clean.
>>
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