New beta release 4.81.2
Peter Ong
peter.ong at hypermediasystems.com
Tue Aug 3 17:06:16 IST 2010
Thanks Julian. I'm making a note of it.
p
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 8:24:55 AM
> Subject: Re: New beta release 4.81.2
>
> In case you need to change it back to its old behaviour, you want to
> look at lines 413 and 414 of SweepOther.pm.
> Line 413 is the old code (commented out) and line 414 is the new
> code.
> Simply move the comment symbol # to the other line to revert to the
> old
> behaviour.
>
> All it does is only look in the output of the file command (or of
> "file
> -i") for all the filetype-desribing text up to, but not including, the
>
> first "," instead of until the end of the line. This improves the
> behaviour with some filetypes, particularly Word documents, where the
>
> output of "file" includes loads of information extracted from the file
>
> being studied. That extra information may contain all sorts of things
>
> which are detected as keywords in your filetype.rules.conf file.
>
> Hopefully that will make the upgrade a whole lot easier for you!
>
> Jules.
>
> On 03/08/2010 15:50, Peter Ong wrote:
> > Oh no, I was just drawing similarities, but not intended as an
> indictment to MailScanner at all. In fact, I suggested once that its
> name should be changed to Awesome MailScanner.
> >
> > It's just that the file command was a very hairy situation for me
> until I got it working the way I wanted it; and I was hardly getting
> any love from everyone about it. Of course, whether what I did was the
> right thing remains unknown, but it is now doing what I want it to
> do.
> >
> > Given the trauma I incurred during that time and seeing the "file"
> command related fixes in this release, I don't know how they will
> affect the configurations that were painstakingly borne from the fiery
> tempers of my users and especially the impatience of my higher ups.
> >
> > And by the way, my servers have a load of over 100K per day too.
> (o:`,
> >
> > As to my luck, well, the lottery here is up to 42 million again.
> We'll see.
> >
> > hehehe
> >
> > p
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> >> From: "Hostmaster"<Hostmaster at computerservicecentre.com>
> >> To: "MailScanner discussion"<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 7:23:32 AM
> >> Subject: RE: New beta release 4.81.2
> >>
> >> Peter,
> >> At the risk of jinxing it, I do have to jump to MailScanner's
> defence
> >> and say
> >> that in three years of updating MailScanner on a system which
> handles
> >> 25-30,000
> >> emails a day, I am yet to encounter an issue during an upgrade.
> >>
> >> Perhaps I have just been lucky, or you have been especially
> unlucky?
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >> Richard
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> >> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
> Peter
> >> Ong
> >> Posted At: 03 August 2010 15:07
> >> Posted To: Hostmaster
> >> Conversation: New beta release 4.81.2
> >> Subject: Re: New beta release 4.81.2
> >>
> >>
> >>> 4 Improved "file" command output processing so it stops at 1st
> ","
> >>>
> >> to
> >>
> >>> reduce false alarms greatly.
> >>>
> >> When I was a kid, my mom would take me to Bank of America, and I
> would
> >> marvel at
> >> how complicated the computers and their networks must have been in
> >> order to keep
> >> track of every single transaction for every single customer. Then,
> I
> >> got to work
> >> for a bank for 6 years as the person responsible for the money
> >> transfer system.
> >> Now I fear putting money in any bank, especially that one.
> >>
> >> MailScanner took me a few weeks to tame what with all the "file"
> >> command issues
> >> we had. Now that I'm seeing the behind the scenes of the upgrade
> and
> >> I'm still
> >> licking my wounds, I dread this upgrade.
> >>
> >> p
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: "Julian Field"<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> >>> To: "MailScanner discussion"<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 3:33:56 AM
> >>> Subject: New beta release 4.81.2
> >>>
> >>> I have just released a new beta, with the intention of it
> becoming
> >>>
> >> a
> >>
> >>> stable release Real Soon Now(tm).
> >>> Since 4.79, quite a few things have happened:
> >>>
> >>> * New Features and Improvements *
> >>> 1 Upgraded AVG support to AVG version 8. Support no longer
> >>>
> >> guaranteed
> >>
> >>> for older versions.
> >>> 2 Installers no longer over-write mailscanner.cf in SpamAssassin
> >>> directory if the file or link exists.
> >>> 3 Added support for McAfee version 6. Use the virus scanner name
> >>> "mcafee6" to get this support. Many thanks to Phil Randal and
> >>>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>> Miller for all their hard work on this.
> >>> 4 Improved "file" command output processing so it stops at 1st
> ","
> >>>
> >> to
> >>
> >>> reduce false alarms greatly.
> >>> 5 Added facility for over-riding MailScanner.conf settings and
> >>> rulesets with those held in an SQL database.
> >>> New settings are:
> >>> DB DSN, DB Username, DB Password, SQL Serial Number, SQL
> Quick
> >>> Peek, SQL Config, SQL Ruleset, SQL SpamAssassin Config, SQL
> Debug.
> >>> See the MailScanner.conf file for more details.
> >>> 5 Added dependency "Sys::SigAction" Perl modules to installers.
> >>> 6 Updated to Archive::Zip 1.30 and added Compress::Raw::Zlib
> >>> dependency.
> >>> 1 Slight improvement to check_mailscanner script to send some
> >>>
> >> output
> >>
> >>> to /dev/null for Greg Kuhnert.
> >>> 2 "Scan Messages = virus" will *only* scan mail for viruses and
> >>> nothing else at all. This makes simple setups where you only want
> >>> virus scanning a whole lot easier to set up.
> >>>
> >>> * Fixes *
> >>> 1 A minor rewrite of a bit of the TNEF code to handle some
> systems'
> >>> odd
> >>> opinions about tainting data.
> >>> 1 Minor tweak to avoid warning about insecure dependency in
> >>> WorkArea.pm.
> >>> 2 Fixed documentation for "Allow Multiple HTML Signatures"
> setting.
> >>> 3 Fixed "MailScanner --lint" to not throw an erroneous error
> >>>
> >> message
> >>
> >>> about "MSlint" directory permissions.
> >>> 3 Fixed error in MIME boundary checking that stopped a few very
> >>>
> >> rare
> >>
> >>> cases being checked.
> >>> 5 Fixed issue where zip files in messages were unpacked with
> >>>
> >> incorrect
> >>
> >>> permissions.
> >>> 5-2 Fixed bug introduced in 5-1.
> >>> 7 Fixed ruleset-from-function bug introduced in 5-1.
> >>> 9 Fixed bug where %variables% would not work in ruleset files.
> >>> 10 Fixed bug on Linux systems where Postfix systems would change
> >>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>> ownership of the queue and work directories every time
> MailScanner
> >>>
> >> was
> >>
> >>> started.
> >>> 1 Deny File MIME Types was ignored if new filetype rules used
> MIME
> >>> checks.
> >>> 2 Slightly improvement to phishing trap to handle links with " in
> >>> them.
> >>> 2 Worked around nasty behaviour of Perl's "each()". Thanks
> Timofey!
> >>>
> >>> All available from www.mailscanner.info as usual.
> >>>
> >>> I would be very grateful if you could test this release and prove
> >>>
> >> it's
> >>
> >>> okay. In a few days I will release a stable version, if I get
> >>>
> >> enough
> >>
> >>> response that it is indeed all working okay.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks folks!
> >>>
> >>> Jules
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
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> >>>
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> >>
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