Release 4.62.6 beta

Fri Jul 27 12:45:29 IST 2007

"4 Improved upgrade_MailScanner_conf so that it checks that the
'Monitors for
  ClamAV Updates' setting looks for inc and cvd files. Problems have 
recently
  been suffered by many due to the value of this setting being out of
date.
  It doesn't automatically re-write their setting in case they have 
installed
  ClamAV somewhere odd and have customised it.
4 Changed 'Monitors for Sophos Updates' setting default value to point
to
  appropriate file for Sophos version 5 and upwards, and have added
check
  in upgrade_MailScanner_conf to ensure their setting now points to a
new
  location. It prints a warning if sophos-av does not appear in the
path"

Works fine in upgrade_MailScanner_conf but breaks in
upgrade_languages_conf, always reporting both.

Cheers,

Phil

--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> Of Julian Field
> Sent: 26 July 2007 18:33
> To: MailScanner discussion; MailScanner beta testers
> Subject: Release 4.62.6 beta
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> Hi folks!
> 
> I have just released 4.62.6 which includes the new 
> "custom(parameter)" 
> spam action. This calls a function in 
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/CustomAction.
> pm which 
> you can tailor to do anything you like with a message. You can have 
> multiple "custom()" actions listed, and each will be called 
> in turn. Put 
> different parameters in these actions, and you can do any 
> combination of 
> things you want.
> 
> This version also includes a fix for the McAfee problem just 
> mentioned 
> on the mailing list.
> 
> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
> 
> The full Change Log is this:
> 
> * New Features and Improvements *
> 1 Improved non-Linux installer.
> 1 Improved Linux installer.
> 1 Updated OpenBSD installation guide. Thanks to Jeremy Evans for this.
> 1 Upgraded MIME::Base64 to 3.07.
> 1 Improved error reporting for clamd permissions problems. 
> Thanks Rick.
> 2 Added SAUPDATEARGS to /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner and
>   /usr/sbin/update_spamassassin. For a good use of this, see
>   
> http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.tx
> t and search
>   for "HOWTO" in the Subject: line of the MailScanner-discussion list 
> archive.
>   This process replaces RulesDuJour entirely.
>   Another good ruleset to add to your setup is
>   http://www.peregrinehw.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf
>   To download this automatically every night, fetch
>   http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/KAM.cf.sh and put it in 
> /etc/cron.daily
>   and make it executable (type "chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/KAM.cf.sh").
> 3 Added "Known Web Bug Servers" so you can blacklist images 
> from known 
> servers
>   of web bug services.
> 3 Added functionality of "milter-null" to MailScanner so you 
> no longer 
> need to
>   run this separately. It is called "Watermarking" and there 
> is a whole
>   section for the settings in MailScanner.conf. They are
>   Add Watermark = yes
>   Skip Spam Checks If Watermark Valid = yes
>   Watermark Header = MailScanner-%org-name%-Watermark:
>   Watermark Lifetime = 432000 # in seconds, = 5 days
>   Watermark Secret = SET-THIS-TO-A-SECRET!
>   Also added Digest::MD5 to the required list of Perl 
> modules, this is 
> needed
>   for the watermarking code.
> 3 Added optional image to the clean message signature. You 
> can also use this
>   to add an arbitrary image attachment to any message, if you 
> so wish. The
>   main point is to be able to have graphical HTML signatures 
> on messages.
>   The settings are
>   Attach Image To Signature = no
>   Attach Image To HTML Message Only = yes
>   Signature Image Filename = %report-dir%/sig.jpg
>   Signature Image <img> Filename = signature.jpg
> 4 Added support for Kaspersky kav4fs. Set virus.scanners.conf entry to
>   point to /opt/kaspersky.
> 4 Changed default value to "Max SpamAssassin Size = 100k" as 
> modern PDF 
> spams
>   are getting quite large, and PDFInfo.pm doesn't work with cropped 
> messages.
> 4 Improved Clamd parser to handle Sane Security ClamAV 
> signature databases
>   which detect spam and so on from the contents of the 
> headers, and hence
>   find infections without attachment filenames. Thanks to 
> various people for
>   help with this, you know who you are :-)
> 4 Improved upgrade_MailScanner_conf so that it checks that 
> the 'Monitors for
>   ClamAV Updates' setting looks for inc and cvd files. Problems have 
> recently
>   been suffered by many due to the value of this setting 
> being out of date.
>   It doesn't automatically re-write their setting in case they have 
> installed
>   ClamAV somewhere odd and have customised it.
> 4 Changed 'Monitors for Sophos Updates' setting default value 
> to point to
>   appropriate file for Sophos version 5 and upwards, and have 
> added check
>   in upgrade_MailScanner_conf to ensure their setting now 
> points to a new
>   location. It prints a warning if sophos-av does not appear 
> in the path.
> 4 Added configuration setting "SpamAssassin Rule Actions". 
> This setting is
>   very powerful and can be used to implement many things that 
> MCP can do,
>   without having the processing overhead of MCP. The 
> documentation for it is
>   in the MailScanner.conf file. Its power is limited by your 
> imagination :-)
>   Start combining it with rulesets and you can take (or _not_ 
> take) any
>   combination of actions dependent on any bit of content in 
> the message 
> or its
>   headers. You could try out new SA tests by storing in 
> quarantine every
>   message that matches a new particular SpamAssassin rule (or 
> meta-rule for
>   creating more complex expressions).
> 5 Added "custom" spam action, which takes a parameter. This is passed 
> into the
>   CustomAction function in CustomAction.pm in the 
> CustomFunctions directory.
>   This can be used to implement anything your heart desires, 
> depending 
> on the
>   contents of a message.
> 
> * Fixes *
> 2-2 Fixed error in RPM installer.
> 2-3 Fixed error in update_spamassassin.
> 3-2 The watermarking code should do something now :-)
> 3-3 Rewrote the watermarking docs so they reflect the truth.
> 4   --lint now reads all the Custom Functions properly.
> 4   Bug in auto-zip fixed where attachments could be deleted 
> without being
>     added to zip. Thanks to Matt Hampton.
> 4   Bug with '-' in HTML attribute names confusing phishing 
> net fixed. 
> Thanks
>     to John Wilcock.
> 5   Fixed 2 bugs in MSRBL clamav-signature handler. Thanks to UxBoD.
> 6   Fixed bug from October 2006 involving McAfee finding 
> infections in 
> headers.
> 
> 
> Jules
> 
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> 
> MailScanner customisation, or any advanced system administration help?
> Contact me at Jules at Jules.FM
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