MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.82 stable released

Jules Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 16 19:33:11 GMT 2011


What MTA are you using, and if you can reproduce this error reliably, I 
would like a copy of your incoming mail queue as well. That error should 
never happen.

Is it happening for anyone else?

The only way that can happen is if the "sub new" isn't getting called or 
is bailing out early, before the "bless" happens to set the type. None 
of the "sub new" functions can exit early, so they must be not being 
called. But in CreateBatch, when they are called, they are always called 
before the message is added to the batch.

Some bug in Perl 5.10.1 or a change of behaviour in Perl I don't know about?
It's clearly a change between Perl 5.10.0 and 5.10.1. Does the ChangeLog 
for  Perl 5.10.1 say anything about it?

On 16/02/2011 19:11, Alvaro Marin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was using MS 4.79.11-1 with Debian Lenny (Perl 5.10.0) and I've 
> upgraded to Debian Squeeze with Perl 5.10.1 and now I've this error:
>
>
> # /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner --debug
>
>
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
> Building a message batch to scan...
> Have a batch of 7 messages.
> Can't call method "CombineReports" on unblessed reference at 
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/MessageBatch.pm line 736.
>
> Any idea? :S
>
> # /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner -V
> Running on
> Linux main0260 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:40:25 UTC 2011 
> i686 GNU/Linux
> This is Perl version 5.010001 (5.10.1)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.82.6
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.30    Archive::Zip
> 0.23    bignum
> 1.11    Carp
> 2.024    Compress::Zlib
> 1.119     Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.125    Data::Dumper
> 2.27    Date::Parse
> 1.03    DirHandle
> 1.06    Fcntl
> 2.77    File::Basename
> 2.14    File::Copy
> 2.02    FileHandle
> 2.07_03    File::Path
> 0.22    File::Temp
> 0.92    Filesys::Df
> 3.64    HTML::Entities
> 3.64    HTML::Parser
> 3.57    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.25    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.04    Mail::Header
> 1.89    Math::BigInt
> 0.22    Math::BigRat
> 3.08    MIME::Base64
> 5.427    MIME::Decoder
> 5.427    MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.427    MIME::Head
> 5.427    MIME::Parser
> 3.08    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.427    MIME::Tools
> 0.14    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.19    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.07    Pod::Simple
> 1.17    POSIX
> 1.23    Scalar::Util
> 1.82    Socket
> 2.20    Storable
> 1.4    Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.27    Sys::Syslog
> 1.26    Test::Pod
> 0.92    Test::Simple
> 1.9719    Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.52    Archive::Tar
> 0.23    bignum
> missing    Business::ISBN
> missing    Business::ISBN::Data
> missing    Data::Dump
> 1.82    DB_File
> 1.29    DBD::SQLite
> 1.607    DBI
> 1.16    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.39    Digest::MD5
> 2.12    Digest::SHA1
> 1.01    Encode::Detect
> 0.17016    Error
> 0.2602    ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 2.2002    ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.38    Getopt::Long
> missing    Inline
> missing    IO::String
> 1.10    IO::Zlib
> 2.27    IP::Country
> missing    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.003001    Mail::SpamAssassin
> v2.007    Mail::SPF
> 1.999001    Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.340201    Module::Build
> 0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.66    Net::DNS
> v0.003    Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> 0.40    Net::LDAP
>  4.027    NetAddr::IP
> missing    Parse::RecDescent
> missing    SAVI
> 3.17    Test::Harness
> missing    Test::Manifest
> 2.0.0    Text::Balanced
> 1.53    URI
> 0.77    version
> 0.72    YAML
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> El 11/02/11 17:02, Stephen Cox escribió:
>> Thank you!
>>
>> On 2/11/11, Julian Field<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I have just released a new stable edition of MailScanner, version 
>>> 4.82.6.
>>>
>>> This is identical to the recent beta version 4.82.5.
>>>
>>> The main new feature is in filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf
>>> configuration files. As well as the previous "allow", "deny" and
>>> "deny+delete" instructions in a rule, you can now automatically rename
>>> attachment filenames using the "rename" and "rename to" instructions
>>> instead of just allowing or denying them.
>>>
>>> When using the new "rename" instruction in a rule, any matching file
>>> will be automatically renamed using the new "Rename Pattern" setting in
>>> MailScanner.conf. This allows you to add a prefix or a suffix to any
>>> filename.
>>>
>>> When using the new "rename to" instruction in a rule, any matching file
>>> will be automatically renamed so that the portion of the filename that
>>> matches the pattern string is replaced with new text. So for example,
>>> you can rename all *.pps files to *.ppt with the rule
>>>
>>> rename to .ppt    \.pps$    Renamed pps to ppt    Renamed file
>>>
>>> If you want to be even cleverer, you can use parenthesised sections of
>>> the match pattern within the replacement text. I'm not quite sure who
>>> this will be useful to, but I'm sure you will find some clever uses 
>>> (you
>>> folks always do!). As a random example,
>>>
>>> rename to Dangerous_$1_$2    ^(.*)\.(exe|com|scr)$    Renamed dangerous
>>> exes   Renamed file
>>>
>>> That will rename any file such as "PleaseRunMe.exe" to
>>> "Dangerous_PleaseRunMe_exe" and rename "DodgyScreensaver.scr" to
>>> "Dangerous_DodgyScreensaver_scr" which means the user cannot run it
>>> without renaming it first.
>>>
>>> Cool huh?
>>>
>>> Anyway, you can get it as usual from
>>>
>>>               http://www.mailscanner.info
>>>
>>> ==========================
>>> The full Changelog is:
>>> * New Features and Improvements *
>>> 1 In filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf files, as well as the
>>>     previous "allow", "deny", "deny+delete", and email-address types 
>>> of rule,
>>>     there are now "rename" rules as well. If a filename or filetype 
>>> matches
>>>     a "rename" rule, the original attachment is left in the message 
>>> but is
>>>     renamed according to the "Rename Pattern" setting in 
>>> MailScanner.conf.
>>>     This allows for any prefixes or suffixes you may want to add to the
>>>     attachment's filename.
>>> 2 Improved "rename" rules so you can now also specify "rename to 
>>> new-text".
>>>     If the rule matched an attachment's filename, the text matching the
>>> pattern
>>>     for that rule will be replaced with the "new-text" string supplied.
>>>     The "to" is optional, but makes it easier to read.
>>> 4 Rules files will be assumed in the MailScanner.conf if the 
>>> filename now
>>>     ends in ".Rules" as well as ".rules".
>>> 4 Allow deployments with the 'split mail per recipient' setup where 
>>> mail
>>>     is re-injected from 127.0.0.1 to still whitelist 127.0.0.1 for 
>>> releasing
>>>     of quarantined messages, while still scanning re-injected mail.
>>>
>>> * Fixes *
>>> 1 AVG scanner command-line arguments typo fixed.
>>> 2 Fixed problem where HTML messages scanned for Phishing would be 
>>> truncated
>>>     at the start of the first<a>  tag if it was never closed properly.
>>> 3 Fixed bug stopping things like "$1" working in the replacement 
>>> text of a
>>>     "rename to" filename.rules.conf rule.
>>> 4 Fixed permissions of ClamAV temp files to use workperms instead of 
>>> 0600.
>>>     Thanks to Rick Cooper for this fix!
>>> 4 Fixed problem caused by invalid "Spam List" or "Spam Domain List" 
>>> values
>>>     appearing in the conf file. Thanks to Steve Freegard for this!
>>> 5 Fixed issue where messages quarantined for being a DoS attack did not
>>>     have their headers quarantined correctly.
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
>>> www.MailScanner.info
>>>
>>> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
>>> Need help customising MailScanner? Contact me!
>>>
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>>>
>>> 'All programs have a desire to be useful' - Tron, 1982
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>>> believed to be clean.
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>

Jules

-- 
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