MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.49 released -- faster!

[Martin Hepworth]

I'm seeing scan times of around 20 seconds, down from 30....but I run a
check of a lot of checks on the email which is why the times are so huge..


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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of mbneto
> Sent: 03 January 2006 17:36
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.49 released --
> faster!
> 
> 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
> > Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
> > Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> >
> >
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