Beta release 4.42.6

[Julian Field]

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I did of course mean 4.42.6.

Julian Field wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Julian Field
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