MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.53.6 released
Julian Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 1 18:47:04 IST 2006
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Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the
Problem wrote:
> 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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>
>
> Julian is Filesys-Statvfs_Statfs_Df
>
> GOingto be intrical to MailScanner?
>
intrical? intrinsically critical?
>
> 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
>
> Stop.
That's not good. Please file a bug with the author of Filesys::Df. It
appears it fails under BSD :-(
To work around it for now, find where Message.pm has been put on your
BSD system (possibly /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Message.pm or
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm?) and edit it.
Change line 1663 from
my $df = df($dir, 1024);
to
my $df = undef;
and then restart MailScanner. This will just eliminate the check. Make
sure you don't run out of disk space :-)
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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
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