Beta release 4.42.8

[Julian Field]

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I have just released 4.42.8. The main point of this is for you to try
out the new worker-child process management code, which I hope will fix
the problems a few people have been reporting, and handle the restarts
efficiently.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.

The full Change Log is:

* 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.
- Fixed typo in upgrade_MailScanner_conf.
- Made significant changes to child worker process management and
re-spawning,
  to try to avoid problems reported by a few users with MailScanner "slowly
  stopping working" over the space of several hours.

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Julian Field
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