MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.49 released -- faster!

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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has a benchmark of "how much faster" this
new version is with sendmail and exim.

tks.

On 1/1/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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>
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