New Year's Resolution and new beta release [OT]

[Jon Leeman]

Julian,

I make no apologies for top posting this time.

There's around 350 email users in this country.  The vast majority have
no conception of "how the thing works'.

There is no one here (that I know of) that have even heard of
MailScanner let alone your name.  Pity, because  you/it do/does the job.

On behalf of all here.......Thank You.

I sincerely hope that you are able to continue your generous efforts for
the [ forseeable ] future.

Regards,

Jon

{ Nauru local 0830 clear skies Temp. 28 Deg. C.  {with apologies to
Glenn :-) }





Julian Field wrote:
> 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
>