MailScanner ANNOUNCE: New stable release 4.78.17

[Garrod M. Alwood]

Hey Everyone,

    Just as an FYI, I was able to alien the main mailscanner .rpm into a 
.deb and it works great. Updates everything perfectly (just make sure 
you backup your configuration). I'm sure it will install perfectly as 
well. I have been testing the package now for 4 days and everything is 
perfect no complaints and the new feature has been working as well.

Garrod M. Alwood
Linux Consultant



Jules Field wrote:
> Evening all!
>
> I have just released a new stable release of MailScanner 4.78.
>
> There are many new features this time around, including
> - "host:" and "host-nocheck:" specifiers in rulesets to allow you to 
> specify hostnames the mail came from, as well as IP addresses and 
> sender e-mail addresses.
> - virus scanning is now done before spam scanning.
> - new support for "spam-viruses" which are spam messages detected by 
> your virus scanner (such as with the extra ClamAV signature databases, 
> or F-Prot). This is managed by the new MailScanner.conf settings 
> "Spam-Virus Header" and "Virus Names Which Are Spam". See the 
> ChangeLog for more information.
> - several installer improvements, in particular for Fedora Core 11 and 
> better RPM management.
> - "include" directive in MailScanner.conf files, so you can avoid 
> modifying the shipped MailScanner.conf file at all, making upgrades 
> easier. This also makes large installations easier as you can just 
> specify your local modifications in a set of files stored in 
> /etc/MailScanner/conf.d. "Include" directives can be nested to 
> arbitrary depths, so included files can include other files to any 
> complexity you require.
> - Many fixes.
>
> For more information on any of the above, see the Change Log and the 
> MailScanner.conf file as they describe them in more depth.
>
> Download as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
>
>
> The full Change Log is here:
>
> * New Features and Improvements *
> 1 Improved handling of Postfix messages with complex structures caused by
>   some milters.
> 2 In addition to the previous 'host:hostname.domain.com' method of 
> providing
>   a hostname in rulesets, you can now also specify
>     host-nocheck:hostname.domain.com
>   which is the same thing but no anti-spoof checks are made. This is only
>   useful if you have a 'PTR' record for providing the IP address of the
>   hostname but no forward 'A' record for translating the IP address into
>   a hostname.
>   This is frequently the situation when using dynamic IP addresses.
> 3 Swapped over virus-scanning and spam-scanning code completely, so all
>   virus-scanning code is done before spam-scanning code. It won't virus-
>   scan "Silent Viruses" which is pretty much all of them now, so it 
> should
>   work okay. This allows me to introduce...
> 3 New feature to allow detection of "spam-viruses" which are items of 
> spam
>   that are reported by your virus scanner. You can set 2 new 
> configuration
>   options:
>   Spam-Virus Header = X-%org-name%-MailScanner-SpamVirus-Report:
>   Virus Names Which Are Spam = Sane*UNOFFICIAL HTML/*
>   The names of the "spam-viruses" found are those viruses reported by 
> your
>   virus scanners which match any of the strings given in "Virus Names 
> Which
>   Are Spam". These "spam-virus" names are added to the header set by
>   "Spam-Virus Header". You can then write a SpamAssassin rule in
>   spam.assassin.prefs.conf which gives a score for the presence or 
> contents
>   of this header. I supply an example rule which adds a score of 3 if the
>   header exists. Feel free to re-write and extend that rule! It will 
> not work
>   unless you customise it. You could even write a "SpamAssassin Rule 
> Action"
>   to handle this rule specially!
> 6 Improved installer for Fedora Core 11.
> 7 Improved RPM installer so when it needs to, it only removes RPMs I 
> installed.
> 7-2 Added an "export HOSTNAME" to the init.d script. Should resolve some
>   issues where using "$HOSTNAME" or "${HOSTNAME}" in MailScanner.conf did
>   not work.
> 8 Added support for "include path-to-conf-files" lines in 
> MailScanner.conf.
>   You can now put your site-specific customisations in separate files, to
>   make upgrading of many servers a lot easier. You can nest "include" 
> files,
>   which means that an "include"d file can "include" other files.
>   The "path-to-conf-files" can use the normal shell wildcard 
> characters such
>   as "*" so a valid line might be
>   include /etc/MailScanner/config/*.conf
>   to read all the *.conf files in that directory in turn.
>   The *last* value read for each MailScanner.conf setting will be used.
> 8 Added support for "include" lines in upgrade_MailScanner_conf. If 
> you treat
>   them as comments, the whole problem quietly disappears!
> 10 Added /etc/MailScanner/conf.d directory to RPM and added a default 
> include
>    line in shipped MailScanner.conf. Put a README in the conf.d 
> directory.
> 11 Improved notes in conf.d/README file.
> 13 Added "Quick.Peek" script to distribution to read configuration 
> settings
>    from shell scripts, which correctly handles included files.
>
> * Fixes *
> 2 Minor fix to phishing net for servers on port numbers that start 
> with "80"
>   but are not 80.
> 2 Fixed issue of spam report not appearing in rare cases.
> 4 Fixed problem of silent viruses not being quarantined when requested.
> 5 Fixed issue where spam-viruses would be quarantined and found as 
> silent.
> 5-3 Renamed subroutine.
> 6 Fixed installer for Perl-IO, Perl-DBI, Perl-DBD-SQLite, 
> Perl-Filesys-Df,
>   Perl-Net-DNS for Fedora 11.
> 7 Fixed installer for Perl-Digest-SHA1 for Fedora 11.
> 9 Fixed problem where "Scan Messages = no" was ignored.
> 9 Fixed problem where multiply-infected files in the same archive may not
>   always be removed correctly.
> 10 Fixed issues with "include" files where they wouldn't be used for a 
> few
>    variables, and "%variable%" definitions in include files were ignored.
> 11 Fixed problem where settings found in included conf files would be
>    ignored sometimes when starting up.
> 14 Rulesets used within Custom Functions should work again now.
> 15 Fixed crash when "Expand TNEF = replace".
> 16 Improved processing_messages_alert so it behaves better in the face of
>    a ruleset defining "Notices To =".
> 16 Fixed problem in Exim where duplicate headers could appear due to
>    DeleteHeader not finding them correctly.
> 16 Improved handling of Unicode and foreign character sets used in 
> attachment
>    filenames.
>
> Jules
>