Beta release 4.42.2

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 19 16:41:58 IST 2005


But fortunately I have a real job too, to (a) keep me (relatively)
sane and (b) pay the bills...

Some of you may well argue over (a)  :-)

On 19 May 2005, at 16:33, Julian Field wrote:

> "A lot of time" is probably an understatement :-)
> I have worked on it for an average of 350 days out of each of the
> past 5 years.
>
> :-)
>
> On 19 May 2005, at 16:11, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>
>
>> Seems like you spend a lot of time on MailScanner, and not just now
>> but
>> for however long you have wrote MailScanner.
>>
>> Thank you for doing this.
>>
>> Billy Pumphrey
>> IT Manager
>> Wooden & McLaughlin
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: MailScanner mailing list
>>> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>> Behalf Of Julian Field
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:25 AM
>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Beta release 4.42.2
>>>
>>> I have just released a new beta version 4.42.2.
>>>
>>> Please download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>>>
>>> The changes are:
>>>
>>> * New Features and Improvements *
>>> - Now automatically detects and warns if the "Incoming Work
>>> Directory"
>>>    setting contains any links. It also corrects the path (but not in
>>>
>>>
>> the
>>
>>
>>>    MailScanner.conf file) and continues to work properly.
>>> - Added support for Sophos 3.93.2. You must use the sophos-
>>> autoupdate
>>> from
>>>    this version if you want Sophos to work (both the sophos and
>>> sophossavi
>>>    scanner settings).
>>> - Tar and RPM distribution installation scripts now look for gtar if
>>>
>>>
>> GNU
>>
>>
>>>    tar was not found, and is happy if /usr/local/bin/perl and /usr/
>>> bin/perl
>>>    point to the same place.
>>> - SophosSAVI errors are detected as if they were viruses, and are
>>> not
>>>    ignored.
>>> - Panda support completely reimplemented a lot better by Rick
>>> Cooper.
>>>
>>> * Fixes*
>>> - Fixed problem that could cause harmless header files to be left in
>>>
>>>
>> the
>>
>>
>>>    temporary working directories when using Postfix.
>>> - Fixed problem where attachment size checks were made on the
>>> contents of
>>>    zip files and not just the zip files themselves.
>>> - Hopefully fixed problem with ClamAV missing Worm.Sober.P
>>>
>>>
>> occasionally.
>>
>>
>>> - No longer import missing whine method from MIME-tools.
>>> - Fixed problems with incomplete reporting of viruses in zip files.
>>> - Fixed problem with "Delete" MCP action not being logged in syslog.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Julian Field
>>> www.MailScanner.info
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>
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