MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.53.6 released
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon May 1 19:37:09 IST 2006
Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem
spake the following on 5/1/2006 11:13 AM:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:47:04PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem
spake the following on 5/1/2006 11:13 AM:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:47:04PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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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 :-)
>>
>> - --
>
> Don't run out of Disk Space??
>
> Can we have an explanation?
That module reports on file system usage. MailScanner must use it to make sure
there is adequate space before it does some options.
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