Feedback on MailScanner 4.56.1-1 beta

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 23 08:25:23 IST 2006



Jim Holland wrote:
> Hi Julian
>
> I installed the above beta version this evening on Red Hat 7.1 earlier 
> this evening, just after installing sendmail 8.13.8.  See details of 
> configuration below (you may notice that it is using Sys::Syslog version 
> 0.01 - the current version does not compile on RH 7.1).
>
> The installation went fine, but I experienced the following error when 
> trying to start MailScanner:
>
> 	Can't locate Sys/Hostname/Long.pm in @INC . . .
>
> That was solved by installing Sys::Hostname::Long using cpan and it worked 
> fine after that.
>   
I'll take a look. What happened when the install.sh tried to install it?

> You have very kindly included a new facility for providing separate 
> reports for messages and attachments which have been blocked or 
> quarantined due to user specified size restrictions.  I have done some 
> testing on both oversize messages and attachments, and am pleased to 
> report that it works exactly as intended for attachments, giving a report 
> such as:
>
> 	MailScanner: Attachment is too large: 154303 bytes
>
> However in the case of oversize messages, the report is just:
>
> 	MailScanner: Message is too large
>
> with no indication of the size of the message that has been quarantined.  
> Would it be possible to include the size in that case as well?  That would 
> be very helpful for people who don't want to unquarantine a message that 
> is far too large for them to handle.
>   
I'll take a look and see. I can only think that there was some good 
reason why I couldn't do it.

> I was not able to test the sender.size.report.txt as the production site
> is not bouncing any MailScanner reports back to sender. To be honest, I am
> not quite sure how to enable these for test purposes.  I presume it is
> just a matter of changing no to yes in:
>
> 	# Do you want to notify the people who sent you messages containing
> 	# viruses or badly-named filenames?
> 	# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> 	Notify Senders = no
> and
> 	# *If* "Notify Senders" is set to yes, do you want to notify people
> 	# who sent you messages containing other blocked content, such as
> 	# partial messages or messages with external bodies?
> 	# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> 	Notify Senders Of Other Blocked Content = no
>   
Correct.
> The other test not done is to see how the deleted.size.message.txt report 
> works.  We are not deleting any messages or attachments at the moment - 
> everything gets quarantined.  However to test this, is the only option to
> change yes to no in:
>
> 	# Do you want to store copies of the infected attachments and messages?
> 	# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> 	Quarantine Infections = yes
>
> That would mean that everything that was suspect would be deleted.  I 
> presume that there is no means of being more selective to delete only 
> messages with blocked content, for example?
>   
No you can't, sorry. It's rather "all or nothing".
> With clarification on the above I will set up MailScanner on a test server
> to confirm that these also work as intended.
>   
That would be most helpful.
> Thanks again for your assistance.
>
> Regards
>
> Jim Holland
> System Administrator
> MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>
>
> Running on
> Linux mail.mango.zw 2.4.20-28.7 #1 Thu Dec 18 11:15:04 EST 2003 i686 unknown
> This is Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
> This is Perl version 5.006001 (5.6.1)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.56.1
> Module versions are:
> 1.14	Archive::Zip
> 1.119 	Convert::BinHex
> 1.03	Fcntl
> 2.6	File::Basename
> 2.03	File::Copy
> 2.00	FileHandle
> 1.0404	File::Path
> 0.16	File::Temp
> 0.92	Filesys::Df
> 1.35	HTML::Entities
> 3.54	HTML::Parser
> 2.37	HTML::TokeParser
> 1.20	IO
> 1.08	IO::File
> 1.121	IO::Pipe
> 1.71	Mail::Header
> 3.05	MIME::Base64
> 5.420	MIME::Decoder
> 5.420	MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.420	MIME::Head
> 5.420	MIME::Parser
> 3.03	MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.420	MIME::Tools
> 0.10	Net::CIDR
> 1.03	POSIX
> 1.72	Socket
> 1.4	Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.01	Sys::Syslog
> 1.86	Time::HiRes
> 1.01	Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 0.17	Convert::TNEF
> 1.75	DB_File
> 1.12	DBD::SQLite
> 1.50	DBI
> 1.10	Digest
> missing	Digest::HMAC
> 2.36	Digest::MD5
> missing	Digest::SHA1
> missing	Inline
> missing	Mail::ClamAV
> missing	Mail::SpamAssassin
> missing	Mail::SPF::Query
> missing	Net::CIDR::Lite
> missing	Net::IP
> missing	Net::DNS
> missing	Net::LDAP
> missing	Parse::RecDescent
> missing	SAVI
> 2.46	Test::Harness
> 0.62	Test::Simple
> missing	Text::Balanced
> 1.35	URI
>
>   

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Julian Field
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