Released beta 4.40.4

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Mar 13 17:31:33 GMT 2005 

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I have just put out 4.40.5 with this fix in it.

Rick Cooper wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:01 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Released beta 4.40.4
>>
>>
>>Found this one, thanks for reporting it.
>>
>>[root at karla input]# diff Exim.pm.old Exim.pm
>>763,764c763,764
>><   for ($hdrnum=0; $hdrnum<@{$message->{headers}}; $hdrnum++) {
>><     next unless lc $message->{headers}[$hdrnum]{name} eq lc $key;
>>---
>> >   for ($hdrnum=0; $hdrnum<@{$metadata->{headers}}; $hdrnum++) {
>> >     next unless lc $metadata->{headers}[$hdrnum]{name} eq lc $key;
>>
>>That's the patch for Exim.pm. Change $message to $metadata on both lines.
>>
>>
>
>That was it, all ok now.
>
>Rick
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>>Rick Cooper wrote:
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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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>>>>>>____________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>Everything is possible....except skiing through a revolving door.
>>>>>>
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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:
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>>>>>
>>>>>The Computing Services Handbook:
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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