MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.53.6 released

Mon May 1 19:13:20 IST 2006

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:47:04PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> 
> 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:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >>> Hash: SHA1
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >>> Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.6 (Build 6060)
> >>>
> >>> iQA/AwUBRFXT6hH2WUcUFbZUEQJqkwCgnB2LzUyvYkHin3/aLN6I7WHsomMAn3au
> >>> BZyQSK0p+xYHKI8JQJk383/l
> >>> =qePP
> >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> -- 
> >> MailScanner mailing list
> >> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> >> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
> >>
> >> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
> >>
> >> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! 
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> >> believed to be clean.
> >>     
> >
> >
> > 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 :-)
> 
> - -- 

Don't run out of Disk Space??

Can we have an explanation?

> 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
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: PGP Desktop 9.0.6 (Build 6060)
> 
> iQA/AwUBRFZJmRH2WUcUFbZUEQKdDQCgsZhPcrJoF32oC9kUHvL3w9UqE7AAnA03
> ZZe+sL/7Vfx0WjC4ys2/7DQC
> =QRta
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> -- 
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.
> 
> -- 
> MailScanner mailing list
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
> 
> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
> 
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! 
> 
> -- 
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
> 

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.