MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.61 released

[Mike Kercher]

Is clamd supposed to be faster than the clamavmodule?

Mike
 

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Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: stable 4.61 released

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I have just released a new version of MailScanner, stable version
4.61.7.

The main new things this month are:
- - Direct support for clamd, for extra speed.
- - Bug fixes in the attachments auto-zip feature introduced last month.
- - Bug fixes in the support for Postfix milters.

Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.

The full change log is:

* New Features and Improvements *
1 Direct support for the "clamd" virus scanner -- now talks directly to
the
  clamd daemon without any overhead of calling clamd-wrapper or
clamdscan.
  As a result, this should be faster than the previous clamd support.
  It also has a much smaller memory footprint than the "clamavmodule" 
scanner.
  This is all thanks to Rick Cooper who wrote the original code.
  New configuration options are
  - Clamd Port = 3310
  - Clamd Socket = /tmp/clamd
  - Clamd Lock File = /var/lock/subsys/clamd
  - Clamd Use Threads = no
  The use of these settings is explained in the MailScanner.conf file.
2 Changed session handling in direct clamd virus scanner support.
3 'MailScanner --lint' now finds clamd virus scanner.
3 Made clamd subsys lock file blank by default, so it works on non-Linux
  systems.
3 Added another example to the Allowed Sophos Error Messages setting for
  password-protected files.
4 Renamed "sa-update" command and cron job to "update_spamassassin".
4 Added ability to easily disable update_virus_scanners script.
4 Added conditional call to sa-compile to update_spamassassin cron job.
4 Added to $PATH in update_phishing_sites for Solaris 10 locations.
5 Watermarking functionality has had to be withdrawn due to patent
issues.
  Sorry about this, but it would cause huge problems in the USA where
  software patents are legally enforceable and it would cause problems
with
  including patented code in GPL software too.
6 Added facility to change SpamAssassin's temporary working files
directory,
  using the new option 'SpamAssassin Temporary Dir'. By default this is
put
  under the Incoming Work Dir location, as that is (hopefully) mounted
using
  tmpfs. If an attempt to use this directory fails, it reverts to /tmp.
7 Fixed bug in finding PERL5LIB in installers. Thanks to Sean Coleman.

* Fixes *
2 Fixed bug in auto-zip feature with a message containing 2 attachments
with
  the same filename.
2 Fixed bug in auto-zip feature that would allow zipping of an
attachment
  which had been cleaned out of the message.
3 Fixed "identified/found" bug in AVG parser.
3 Fixed bugs in Panda and AVG parsers courtesy of Rick Cooper.
3 Fixed bug in Postfix handler which caused a problem with empty
messages.
4 Fixed bug in SuSE init.d script stopping MailScanner reload working
properly.
4 Changed method for getting MCP to decode binary attachments (the
interesting
  ones have "application" in their MIME type). New patch for
SpamAssassin 3.2.1
  Util.pm required now. No other SpamAssassin patches required at all.
4 Added definition of "noticesizeinfected" to languages.conf.
4 Added speedup (courtesy of Glenn Steen) to the new Postfix milter
support.
4 Fixed rare bug in Postfix milter header support (from Glenn Steen).
5 Fixed problems with /usr/sbin/update_spamassassin not calling
sa-update.

Jules

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