New Year's Resolution and new beta release

[Julian Field]

Hi folks!

Yes, it's me, I've actually had time to catch up.

My New Year's Resolution is to try to spend more time doing MailScanner 
support. For the last 6 months I have only had time to check my 
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk address, not the mailing lists at all.

Several months recently have been really tough at work on a personal 
level, having to face up to the consequences of my poor health in ways I 
have not had to before, which was a really rough time. I have more or 
less come to terms with it now, and the facts have pretty much sunk in 
so I am feeling rather better now than any time over the past few months.

I don't guarantee I'm going to be able to check the list every day, nor 
read every posting, but I will try a lot harder to show my face around 
here sometimes. I have a big database programming job that is going to 
last for the whole of the next year, so my time is limited. But I am 
going to try to reshuffle a few things in an effort to make more time 
for you guys. I have never done much database programming before, I've 
always found a nice light-weight way around having to use a full scale 
SQL server. And I've never done any .Net or C# before either, so I've 
got a lot to learn.

Secondly, I have just released a new Beta version. This is 4.58.4.

I have fixed the bug where the {Fraud?} tag was not displayed, but the 
{Disarmed} tag instead. You should now get {Fraud?} wherever it finds a 
phishing trap, and you will also get {Disarmed} if you "Highlight 
Phishing Fraud" as well. I hope that is good enough for you.

I have also figured out how to get the configuration system to call a 
ruleset from within a Custom Function. So if you want to handle some 
situations with a Custom Function, but then have that use a ruleset some 
of the time, you can now do it. It is something I never dreamed up when 
I was writing it, so it is pulling a stunt I never thought I would need. 
I have produced a stripped-down example of how to do it, and the code is 
in the /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions directory, along 
with the other few examples I provide you to start from.

I intend to release a new Stable version very soon, hopefully in the 
next week or so. Please do test the new {Fraud?} tag code and give the 
whole thing a good run on any test hosts you may have available.

Beta-testers ----> This means you guys please!

So it just leaves me to wish you all a very good New Year, and let's 
hope this year is personally rather less stressful than last year!

Best regards.

Jules

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MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help?
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