Released beta 4.40.4

[Julian Field]

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I'll quietly put out 4.40.5 to fix this, or no-one else will test it!

Daniel Bird wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> What MTA are you using? Please say Exim :-)
>
>
> Indeed! 8-)
>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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> Tooting
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