MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.71 stable released

[I.smail ÖZATAY]

Julian Field yazm?s,:
> Hi folks!
>
> I have just released a new stable version of MailScanner, version 4.71.
>
> The main changes this month are:
>
> - If a message contains a *.doc document, a new attachment can be 
> added containing the text of the document. This will save your users 
> from having to save the attachment, potentially switch operating 
> systems, and open up Microsoft Word or OpenOffice just to read the 
> words in the document. My users absolutely *love* this feature, it 
> saves them a huge amount of time and hassle when memos are circulated 
> by the management. See the "Add Text Of Doc" setting in 
> MailScanner.conf for more details of how to configure this.
> - Updated support for Esets and F-Secure virus scanners.
> - Thanks to F-Secure for donating me a set of server licences so I can 
> always be sure that I am supporting the latest versions of their 
> products. Much appreciated!
> - One for Fetchmail users: used together with the "--invisible" option 
> to fetchmail, MailScanner will correctly use the IP address of the 
> connecting SMTP client, and not "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" for the IP 
> address in rulesets.
> - Added protection against denial-of-service attacks on the HTML text 
> parser Perl module. There is a message involving thousands of <FONT> 
> tags in circulation which breaks previous versions of MailScanner when 
> they try to analyse the HTML of the email message. This is in no way 
> an attack on MailScanner, but on the underlying HTML::Parser Perl module.
> - Improved support of DSN messages from bigfoot.com which incorrectly 
> use the "message/partial" MIME identifier.
>
> Download it all as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
> The full Change Log is here:
> * New Features and Improvements *
> 1 Upgraded from File::Temp 0.19 to File::Temp 0.20 to resolve 
> installation
> problem reported with Fedora Core 8 systems.
> 2 New Feature: We can now extract the plain text of Microsoft Word (up 
> to 2004)
> documents in the *.doc format, and add it as new attachments to a 
> message.
> This is done using the "antiword" program available from
> http://www.winfield.demon.nl/. There are 3 new configuration settings for
> this feature:
> "Add Text Of Doc" - This switches the feature on and off. Off by default.
> "Antiword" - Full command to run the antiword binary. Adding "-f" to it
> makes it highlight emphasized text in the output, which I find helps.
> "Antiword Timeout" - The greatest length of time antiword is allowed 
> to run.
> 3 Improvement to phishing net, now correctly ignores ':80' in http URLs.
> 3 Implemented support for Esets version 3.
> 4 Implemented support for F-Secure 7.01.
> 5 Added protection against attacks on the HTML text parser (Perl module
> HTML::Parser) which is used to analyse HTML messages for dangerous tags.
> There is a message in circulation that breaks this, causing Perl to 
> trigger
> a "Segmentation Fault". This protection is necessary, but may have an 
> impact
> on the performance of MailScanner. Until the Perl module is fixed, 
> however,
> this is very necessary protection for your email systems.
> 7 Added new option "Read IP Address From Received Header" which you 
> can set to
> yes if you are running fetchmail and injecting mail from fetchmail 
> into your
> MTA using SMTP. You need to set the "--invisible" option to fetchmail 
> as well
> to stop it adding its own "Received:" header. See the "Advanced" 
> section of
> MailScanner.conf for more info on this.
> 8 Added new rules to filename.rules.conf to allow for days of the week 
> and
> months in filenames like my_document.july.doc so they aren't caught by 
> the
> double filename extension trap.
> 8 Improved error notification if your permissions on /tmp are all 
> wrong. It
> now tells you exactly what to type to fix them.
> 8 Improved VBA32 output parser to handle slightly different new output 
> format.
> 8 Improved 'partial message' handling to only remove the partial-message
> section of the message, and not the whole thing. This is particularly
> relevant to DSNs from bigfoot.com
> 10 Improved F-Secure scanning within executables.
>
> * Fixes *
> 3 Improvement to "Sign Clean Messages" so the signature now appears 
> where it
> should, above any </body> tag as well as above any </html> tag.
> 6 Fix to Exim support to allow for arbitrarily-named Exim ACLs. Fix 
> kindly
> provided by dominik.schramm at businessmart.de.
> 6 Fix for missing watermarks, courtesy of Lasantha Marian.
> 7 Fix for case when Rebuild Bayes Every = 0 and Bayes is still rebuilt.
> 7 TNEF attachments will be added with correct filenames when TNEF 
> Expander =
> internal. It was erroneously adding them with their "safe" filenames.
> 9 Removed a load of extra debug output code.
> 9 "Partial messages" are now quarantined correctly.
> 10 Removed duplicate warning output when "Virus Scanners = none".
>
> Jules
>
Yuppieee ..!

I will support you forever Julian...!

Thanks

ismail