MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable version 4.58.9 released

[Sarah Trayser]

On 01/02/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I have just released the latest stable version of MailScanner, 4.58.9.
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> It is available for download directly from
>           www.mailscanner.info
> as usual.
>
> The major changes for this release are:
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> - -- Added a new configuration setting to control whether senders are
> notified about attachments are too big or too small.
> - -- When using the Custom Function plugin system, you can now calculate a
> ruleset from within your Custom Function. Very useful for large sites.
> - -- Improvements to the accuracy of the SpamAssassin cache results.
> - -- Startup scripts now make SpamAssassin run out of memory-based
> temporary files where possible, to improve speed.
> - -- Messages placed in multiple outgoing queues are now delivered
> immediately.
> - -- Fixed problems with a few users seeing extra "disarmed" or "fraud"
> tags appearing incorrectly.
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> Best regards,
>
> Jules
>

The change to force SpamAssassin to run out of memory-based files has
broken MailScanner on VPS systems using clamavmodule. The
check_mailscanner script checks for the existence of /dev/shm, which
is there on a VPS but there is no actual mount point for the tmpfs
file system, and since you can't create files in /dev/, MailScanner
fails to start with a bogus error message of "ClamAV Module ERROR::
Could not load databases from /usr/local/share/clamav".

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Regards,
Sarah Trayser

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