Working for others? Re: Beta 4.42.4 released

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 26 11:54:03 IST 2005


Is 4.42.4 working for anyone else?

On 26 May 2005, at 10:22, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Julian
>
> Mine's in /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner as I'm on FreeBSD
> running the
> tar.gz generic version....
>
> 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
>
> Can't spot anything different..
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
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