MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.49 released -- faster!

[Julian Field]

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Happy New Year to you all!

I have just released the latest stable version of MailScanner, 4.49. 
This should be noticeably faster than previous releases. Noticeable 
changes are:

- Speed improvements for sendmail, Postfix and Exim systems.
- The output of "ps" now states what each MailScanner process is doing 
at the time so you can easily see any problems and it helps you monitor 
the state of your system.
- New configuration options to make simple filename and filetype rules 
much easier to handle, especially when you want different filename/type 
restrictions for different people. The old system is still there, is 
still used, and works just as before. But now with the extra new "Allow 
Filenames", "Deny Filenames", "Accept Filetypes", "Deny Filetypes" 
configuration options you can easily write conventional rulesets to 
control these features. These are applied before the filename.rules.conf 
and filetype.rules.conf files. The order is "Accept" then "Deny" then 
file{name,type}.rules.conf.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.

The full Change Log is this:

* New Features and Improvements *
- Speed improvements for sendmail systems by changing the
  way temporary files are handled and how attachments are parsed. This
  should be really noticeable if I've got it right.
  Thanks for the great help of the Vodafone SHARK team.
- Added speed improvements for Exim.
- Added speed improvements for Postfix.
- Now changes the command line listed in `ps` (ie $0) to show what
  MailScanner is doing. Should help diagnose slow system problems.
- 4 new configuration options, which list patterns against which filenames
  and filetypes are matched to see if we should allow them or block them.
  This is implemented for the benefit of web-based configuration systems for
  MailScanner, it is not really intended for human use as it will complicate
  the filename/filetype matching unless you understand it. Read the comments
  in the MailScanner.conf and suggest better explanations!
  "Allow Filenames", "Deny Filenames", "Allow Filetypes", "Deny Filetypes".
  Note: There are 2 new entries in languages.conf so remember to
        run an upgrade_languages_conf.
- Upgraded tnef program to 1.3.4.
- Added message 'actions' property for MailWatch reporting.
- Custom Function filenames must end in .pm or .pl. Others will be logged
  and skipped.
- Various minor speed improvements.

* Fixes *
- Changed Postfix code to better support latest revision of Perl.
- Now stops MailScanner more reliably on SuSE systems.
- Logging of <img> tags only done if logging HTML tags.
- Fixed minor array ref problem in Perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 6.0 (which is not
  a public stable release anyway).

-- 
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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