Beta release 4.42.5

[Julian Field]

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I have just released 4.42.5 as the last test release before the stable
release on or around 1st June.
The last remaining problems with unscanned mail either getting scanned
or saying it has been scanned should now be fixed.

I have also improved the SuSE init.d script for SuSE 9.3.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.

Here is the full Change Log for this release:

* 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.
- Improved output of SuSE MailScanner init.d script.

* 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.
- Added check to upgrade_MailScanner_conf and upgrade_langages_conf so they
  check to ensure all input files have content before starting.
- Fixed bug where clean header was being applied to unscanned mail when
using
  virus scanning rulesets.
- Fixed wrong build number for 1 Perl module in install.sh scripts.

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Julian Field
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