Beta release 4.47.1 - auto-update phishing sites list

[Quentin Campbell]

Julian

Have been running MailScanner-4.47.1-1 on one of our production Mail
Hubs without obvious problems.

The "phishing.safe.sites.conf" file was updated overnight.

MS installed on this RH AS4 system as usual without any problems.

Quentin
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>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: 09 October 2005 15:54
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Beta release 4.47.1 - auto-update phishing sites list
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>I have just released the first beta release of 4.47.
>
>The main new feature here is to automatically update the 
>phishing.safe.sites.conf file every day.
>All your local changes will be kept, so there is no need to change how 
>you use the file at all.
>
>But if you post me details of new additions to the file, I 
>will add them 
>to the master list, and they will appear in everyone's list 
>within a day.
>
>If sites are added to the master list which turn out to be 
>false, then I 
>can just add a "REMOVE site.com" line to the master file and that will 
>be removed from everyone's whitelist. So if you don't approve 
>of one of 
>my additions, you can add your own "REMOVE site.com" line so you don't 
>use my listing for that site.com.
>
>So it's all pretty safe, and it should be impossible to subvert it. I 
>personally vet every application to add a host to the list. But if I 
>list one I shouldn't, then it is very easy for me (or you) to 
>undo this 
>with the "REMOVE" syntax.
>
>I hope you all find this useful and will upgrade to the new release at 
>the start of November.
>
>In the mean time, I would be eternally grateful if you could test this 
>new feature for me.
>
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