New beta release 4.68.3 -- anyone running it?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 13 21:26:36 GMT 2008


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Rose, Bobby wrote:
> I updated last night and it's been working fine.  The logging for sa
> rule actions is working, phishing update worked this morning and I
> manually kicked it off and it updated.  The web bug replacement is in my
> config, but how would one test it.  Is there an html test email for
> webbugs?
>   
No, just try fetching the file with a web browser and make sure it works 
please.
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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian
> Field
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:02 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: New beta release 4.68.3 -- anyone running it?
>
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> Is it running okay otherwise?
> I haven't seen much sign of anyone running 4.68.3, the list has been
> remarkably quiet :-(
>
> Can you check your /etc/MailScanner/phishing.bad.sites.conf file. Is it
> being updated at all? (You did run upgrade_MailScanner_conf didn't you?)
> Can you check the Web Bug Replacement is coming from www.mailscanner.tv
> please?
>
> Thanks!
> Jules.
>
> Rose, Bobby wrote:
>   
>> Sweet, thanks.  Just thought it was oddity since another postmaster 
>> here asked about it when they saw the log actions.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of 
>> Julian Field
>> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:46 AM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: New beta release 4.68.3
>>
>> Fixed for the next release.
>> I have added a line that deletes the "deliver" action if the "delete" 
>> action has been supplied. Okay with you?
>>
>> Jules.
>>
>> Rose, Bobby wrote:
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>>> Sorry, what I mean is shouldn't delete be the same thing as 
>>> "non-delivery".  Currently I have to specify both non-delivery &
>>>     
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>> delete.
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>>> If I just specify delete, the message still comes thru even though in
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>>> the logs, it says  "SpamAssassin Rule Actions: rule bobby_test caused
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>>> action delete in message m2DBtuAu029683"
>>>  
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of 
>>> Julian Field
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:47 AM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: New beta release 4.68.3
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>>> Rose, Bobby wrote:
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>>>> The logging for SA_Actions is working.  But I have a question, is 
>>>> this
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>>>> to correct action to get such messages to be dropped 
>>>> "non-delivery,delete"  or should just  "delete" work?
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> If the Spam Actions included "deliver" then you'll need to include a 
>>> "non-deliver" or "not-deliver" (or "no-deliver"). It works by 
>>> massaging the delivery options that are already set. I could make 
>>> this
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>>> a special case I guess if you would prefer.
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>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of 
>>>> Julian Field
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:35 PM
>>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>>> Subject: New beta release 4.68.3
>>>>
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>>>> I have just released a new beta, 4.68.3.
>>>> This contains quite a lot of major new things, some of which are 
>>>> very
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>>>>         
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>>>> much "behind the scenes" so I would appreciate it if people could 
>>>> test
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>>>> this out for me.
>>>>
>>>> The major new changes are mostly these:
>>>> - Support for F-Prot version 6 scanning daemon, fpscand. This is 
>>>> very
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>>>>         
>>   
>>     
>>>> fast.
>>>> - Support for Vexira and Esets scanners updated.
>>>> - Major new delivery system for Web Bug Replacement image and 
>>>> phishing.bad.sites.conf file. This now uses an "anycast" content 
>>>> delivery network graciously provided by Matt Hampton, so big thanks 
>>>> to
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>     
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>>>> him. This should make Distributed Denial of Service attacks (which I
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>>>> suffered a couple of weeks ago) virtually impossible as the files 
>>>> are
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>>>>         
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>>>> provided by a globally-distributed network of hosts all behind the 
>>>> same URL and IP address.
>>>> - New ability to forward messages to a list of email addresses if 
>>>> the
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>   
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>>>> messages contain filenames or filetypes matching the rules give in 
>>>> filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf files.
>>>>
>>>> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know how you get on with this release.
>>>> Thanks folks!
>>>>
>>>> Jules
>>>>
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