MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.53.6 released

Mon May 1 17:48:54 IST 2006

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:18:11PM +0200, Jim Holland wrote:
> Hi Julian
> 
> Thanks for the new version, however the links to the PGP signatures on 
> your site give a 404 Not found error.  Please check.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jim Holland
> System Administrator
> MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
> 
> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:
> 
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> > I have just released the May release of MailScanner, version 4.53.6.
> > 
> > The main new improvements this month are:
> > 
> > - - Support for sa-update as provided with recent versions of SpamAssassin.
> > - - Support for the new format of headers files produced by Exim 4.61.
> > - - Many improvements to the handling of, and response to, Web Bugs.
> > - - Support for the "gunzip" command so that filetype and filename checks 
> > can be done on compressed files created with either the "gzip" or 
> > "compress" commands.
> > - - Support for numerical IP addresses in phishing.safe.sites.conf. Using 
> > this, entire servers can be whitelisted with one entry, removing the 
> > need to add every domain provided by that server.
> > - - Support for "k", "m" and "g" multipliers in MailScanner.conf so that 
> > entries can be written as "Max SpamAssassin Size = 30k" instead of 
> > "30000". "k" = 1000, "m" = 1000000, "g" = 1000000000.
> > 
> > You can download it as usual from
> >              www.mailscanner.info
> > 
> > The full Change Log is
> > 
> > * New Features and Improvements *
> > - - Attachment extraction now checks for available disk space and a DoS attack
> >   using messages with high expansion ratios will fail even quicker than it
> >   did before.
> > - - Added new setting "SpamAssassin Local State Dir" to support the sa-update
> >   tool provided with MailScanner these days, to provide a way of auto-
> >   updating the core SpamAssassin rulesets. The default value is set to what
> >   you need for Linux (/var/lib).
> > - - Added new cron job to run sa-update every night. The location of the
> >   sa-update program is read from /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner.
> > - - Added support for new header -H file format in Exim 4.61.
> > - - Added 2 new configuration options "Gunzip Command" and "Gunzip Timeout" to
> >   enable unpacking of gzip-ed files for filename and filetype checking.
> >   Even if this is disabled, gzip-ed files will still be virus scanned.
> > - - Added support for numerical entries in phishing.safe.sites.conf file.
> > - - Added support for optional multipliers in numbers in MailScanner.conf.
> >   So you can now write "50M" instead of "50000000". The multipliers 
> > supported
> >   are "k", "m" and "g" to denote 1 thousand, 1 million and 1 billion (10^9)
> >   in upper or lower case.
> >   You must *not* put any spaces between the number and the multiplier 
> > character.
> > - - Added a new configuration option "Ignored Web Bug Filenames". This allows
> >   you to whitelist a bunch of filenames that can appear in the URLs of
> >   potential web bugs. So if you decide that all potential web bugs with
> >   "spacer" or "pixel.gif" in the filename are just padding for page layout,
> >   then you can make it ignore them by adding them to this list. A sample
> >   list is provided in MailScanner.conf.
> >   This is disabled by default, as spammers may start to use this as a means
> >   of circumventing the Web Bug trap.
> > - - When Web Bugs are disarmed, the URL used to replace the original web bug
> >   can now be set using the new configuration option "Web Bug Replacement".
> >   If this is not specified, then the old value of "MailScannerWebBug" is 
> > used.
> >   The default value supplied in the MailScanner.conf file is the address of
> >   an untracked 1x1 pixel transparent gif (51 bytes) hosted on the 
> > MailScanner
> >   web site. This will not be tracked other than to supply an overall 
> > count of
> >   the number of hits this image gets, for overall statistical purposes.
> > - - Added Razor2 to the list of plugins automatically enabled by the ClamAV+SA
> >   easy-to-install package, due to the recent change in licence. Now if DCC
> >   could go the same way...
> > * Fixes *
> > - - Fixed bug in DoS attack handler. Thanks for Jorge for this.
> > 
> > - -- 
> > 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
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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Julian is Filesys-Statvfs_Statfs_Df

GOingto be intrical to MailScanner?

If so, someone please tell me how I can correct:

 make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
1..3
/usr/bin/perl: can't resolve symbol 'statvfs'
Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/Filesys/Statvfs/Statvfs.so' for module Filesys::Statvfs: Unable to resolve symbol at /usr/libdata/perl5/5.8.8/i386-bsdos/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at test.pl line 12
Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 12.
not ok 1
*** Error code 2

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