Beta release: MailScanner 4.56.5 --- please test

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Sep 24 10:14:51 IST 2006


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Thanks. I have put your fixed version in place.
I will have to release another beta now.

Holger Gebhard wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> just read the full changes for MailScanner 4.56.5...
> I found a little mistake in the Postfixregex posted in the past, sorry 
> for that :-(
>
> Must be:  =~ /^[ARO].+@(?:\w|-|\.)+\.\w{2,}/;
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Field" 
> <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>; 
> "MailScanner beta testers" <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 4:20 PM
> Subject: Beta release: MailScanner 4.56.5 --- please test
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> I have just released a new beta test version of MailScanner, 4.56.5.
> Please test it for me if you possibly can.
>
> The main additions over the past 2 months have been:
>
> - Fine control of reporting for messages breaking size limits
> - Upgraded to Kaspersky 5.5
> - Upgraded to Postfix 2.3
> - Sys::Syslog compatibility problems solved with 1.18
> - More detailed control over "Max SpamAssassin Size" and what happens
> when the truncation point is reached half way through an attachment
> - Upgraded to tnef 1.4.3 to solve problems with UTF-encoded filenames.
> - Upgraded to Archive::Zip 1.16 to solve problems building on 64-bit
> architectures.
>
> Please download as usual from
>          www.mailscanner.info
>
> The full Change Log is:
>
> * New Features and Improvements *
> 1 Added a complete new set of configuration settings to report on
>  messages and attachments that are outside the size limits set in
>  MailScanner.conf. These are:
>  Sender Size Report
>  Stored Size Message Report
>  Deleted Size Message Report
>  Size Modify Subject
>  Size Subject Text
>  These are used in exactly the same way as the other sets of options
>  that tag and modify the message for other reasons.
> 3 Improved report of "message too large" case.
> 3 Updated Catalan language files courtesy of Jordi Sanfeliu.
> 3 Increased default max SpamAssassin message size to catch more 
> single-image
>  spam messages.
> 3 Solved compatibility with Postfix 2.3.
> 3 Upgraded Sys::Syslog to 0.18 which fixes all the compatibility 
> problems of
>  0.17 and 0.16.
> 3 Upgraded Kaspersky support to 5.5.
> 4 Added new features to "Max SpamAssassin Size" setting:
>  <number> --- behave as before
>  <number n> trackback --- get n bytes then backtrack looking for the 
> start
>                           of the attachment we are in the middle of.
>  <number n> continue <number m> --- get n bytes then continue up to a
> maximum
>                                     of m extra bytes looking for the 
> end of
>                                     the attachment we are in the 
> middle of.
> 5 Upgraded to tnef version 1.4.3.
> 5 Upgraded Archive::Zip to 1.16. Builds properly on x64 architectures.
>
> * Fixes *
> 1 When 'Outgoing Queue Dir' was changed from the default, kicking 
> sendmail
>  into attempting delivery of a new processed message in the outgoing 
> queue
>  would just wait for the next regular run of the queue. Now fixed so that
>  a delivery attempt is made immediately. This fix only affects users who
>  have changed the "Outgoing Queue Dir" setting and who are also using
>  sendmail as their MTA.
> 2 Missed 2 "defined" checks on variables before using them.
>  Thanks to Andy Kirkpatrick for spotting that one.
> 2 Fixed version number check.
> 3 Fixed output bug in less strict phishing net. Does anyone use this?
> 3 Fixed bug in Sendmail KickMessage() function. Thanks to Martin Billy.
> 4 Removed Postfix 2.3 extra, and reverted to simple regexp as Holger's
> version
>  is buggy (mismatched ')').
> 5 Changed number of viruses found reported to be max of each AV
> package's value.
>

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