MailScanner beta 4.40.7 released

[Martin Hepworth]

Julain

been running for a couple of hours with no noticable issues
(FreeBSd/Exim)....Still need to find out what's happening with the
'large to list' issue though...

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Julian Field wrote:
> I have just released 4.40.7. This fixes several issues in 4.40.6.
>
> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
> Please do try this out if you can, it all helps the next stable release
> to be better than it is otherwise. All help and assistance in testing is
> much appreciated!
>
> The full Change Log for this version is here:
>
> * 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
>  ${HOSTNAME} in MailScanner.conf and its relatives.
> - More improvements to the phishing net.
> - More additions to the starter phishing.safe.sites.conf file.
> - Removed my spam.assassin.prefs.conf file in favour of the one from
>  www.fsl.com, with just enough changes to produce an identical file
>  layout to my previous versions.
> - Re-enabled ALL_TRUSTED rule after comments from Matt Kettler. Thanks!
> - Added long comment about ALL_TRUSTED rule, many thanks to Matt Kettler.
> - Improved screen behaviour of RPM-based init.d script.
> - Greatly improved RAR archive handler, thanks to Rick Cooper.
> - Changed IPBlock DSN to 550 and made it easily configurable.
>  Look for "$FailCode" in the CustomConfig.pm code and the IPBlock cron job.
> - Changed the "Envelope-From" and "Envelope-To" headers to include your
>  organisation's name.
> - Made date and time stamps consistent across whole system.
> - Added extra rules to the phishing net to avoid false alarms with some
>  examples of Microsoft's .NET system.
> - Added Custom Functions to implement multiple input and output queues for
>  ZMailer users. Many thanks to MailScanner-devel at perl.com.ar (Leonardo
>  Helman and Mariano Absatz) for all their hard work implementing this.
>
> * 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.
> - Fixed Exim problem with removing multiple "Subject:" headers.
> - Fixed Postfix problem with removing multiple "Subject:" headers.
> - Fixed problems in new Unrar code when renaming files in archives.
> - Fixed problems in earlier betas with occasional missing attachment
> warnings.
>
> --
> Julian Field
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>
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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