Beta 4.42.4 released

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 26 10:14:41 IST 2005


Please can you check you /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/
ConfigDefs.pl file.

grep -i disarm

should produce

disarmprependsubject            = disarmedmodifysubject
disarmsubjecttext               = disarmedsubjecttext
DisarmPrependSubject    1       no      0       yes     1
DisarmSubectText                {Disarmed}
AllowIFrameTags         0       no      0       yes     1
disarm  convert
AllowFormTags           0       no      0       yes     1
disarm  convert
AllowObjectTags         0       no      0       yes     1
disarm  convert
AllowScriptTags         0       no      0       yes     1
disarm  convert
AllowWebBugTags         1       yes     1       disarm  convert

The important lines are the first 4. What does yours say?

On 26 May 2005, at 09:30, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Julian
>
> problem ..
>
> May 26 09:27:35 towers MailScanner[76870]: Syntax error(s) in
> configuration file:
> May 26 09:27:35 towers MailScanner[76870]: Unrecognised keyword
> "disarmedsubjecttext" at line 1142
>
> checked that line and it's..
>
> Disarmed Subject Text = {Disarmed}
>
> which is what is should be I guess..
>
> I've rolled back tp 4.42-2 in the mean time...
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I have just released beta version 4.42.4.
>>
>> The major new features are:
>>
>> - Fixed testvirus.org test #23 (empty MIME boundary test).
>> - "Disarmed Modify Subject" and "Disarmed Subject Text" options added
>> so you can tag the Subject: line if there are any HTML tags in the
>> message that were disarmed.
>> - "Spam Lists To Be Spam" threshold added so you can adjust the
>> number of "Spam Lists" that include the message to cause the message
>> to be marked as being spam. Previous versions had this parameter
>> fixed at 1.
>> - Completely new Panda support.
>> - "Incoming Work Directory" is checked for the presence of links in
>> its path.
>>
>> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>>
>> The full Change Log is here:
>>
>> 26/5/2005 New in Version 4.42.4
>> ===============================
>> * 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.
>> - Upgraded File::Temp, Compress::Zlib and ExtUtils-MakeMaker to
>> latest
>>   releases.
>> - New options "Disarmed Modify Subject" and "Disarmed Subject
>> Text" now
>>   provide the ability to alter the Subject: line if any HTML tags in
>> the
>>   body of the message were disarmed (by having their "Allow ....
>> Tags" set
>>   to "disarm". This is switched on by default.
>> - New option "Spam Lists To Be Spam" now provides the ability to
>> set how
>>   many Spam Lists a message must appear in before it is considered
>> to be
>>   spam. The default is 1 as that mimics the previous behaviour.
>>
>> * 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.
>> - Fixed problem with the "null MIME boundary" vulnerability test.
>>
>> --
>> Julian Field
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