25/5/2006 |
Release of stable 4.54.6. This is to get rid of all the issues with 4.53. Next release won't be until July or August. See the Change Log for details. |
25/5/2006 |
Release of 4.54.5 beta, pending stable release in the next few days. The problems with 4.53 are enough to warrant a release of a 4.54 off schedule. See the Change Log for details. |
23/5/2006 |
Several important announcements: Stables releases will now normally be done on the 1st of every other month, so 1 every 2 months not 1 every month. People who can beta-test releases for me, please join the mailscanner-beta@lists.mailscanner.info mailing list. Released beta version 4.54.4. This is the first edition for the beta-testing programme. |
11/5/2006 |
Released beta version 4.54.2. Several bugs fixed that were introduced in 4.53, sorry about that. Many Perl modules have been updated to their latest releases wherever there have been major updates or improvments. |
8/5/2006 |
Released beta version 4.54.1. I have added support for Sophos Version 5. Please test this and let me know what you think. |
5/5/2006 |
Released stable version 4.53.8. Many apologies, there has been discovery of a bug in the phishing net which may cause problems on some systems. Unfortunately this bug was not detected during beta testing. It warrants the publication of a new "stable" release, I am very sorry to have to do this to you. |
3/5/2006 |
Released stable version 4.53.7. I have commented out the setting of "SpamAssassin Local State Dir" in MailScanner.conf as this is causing some problems on sites which block all outbound network traffic by default, causing "sa-update" to fail, which then causes SpamAssassin serious grief. |
1/5/2006 |
Released stable version 4.53.6. There are several new features this month, including customisation of the response to Web Bugs. There is also support for the "sa-update" command provided with new versions of SpamAssassin, and support for numerical IP addresses in the list of safe phishing sites, so that complete servers can be whitelisted rather than having to whitelist every single domain that is served. Please see the Change Log for more information and details. |
27/4/2006 |
Released beta version 4.53.5. There are quite a few new features here, please try it for me before 1st May when I will do the next stable release. Numeric IP addresses are allowed in the phishing net safe sites list. Some filenames can be ignored by the Web Bug detector, and several other new things. Please read the Change Log for more information and details. |
25/4/2006 |
Released beta version 4.53.4. This includes support for the latest Exim 4.61 and filename and filetype checking of gzip-ed files. |
15/4/2006 |
Released beta version 4.53.2. This improved disk space detection in potential DoS attack checker. It won't happen in a default installation, but only when you start unpacking RAR archives that have huge expansion ratios and you are using tmpfs for /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming. |
6/4/2006 |
Updated easy-to-install package of ClamAV and SpamAssassin to contain the latest version of ClamAV, 0.88.1. |
1/4/2006 |
Released stable version 4.52.2. Virtually no changes from the last beta. |
25/3/2006 |
Released beta version 4.52.1. I have implemented a less strict mode of operation for the phishing net. With "Use Stricter Phishing Net = no" it will only check the end of the domain name starting from the name of the company of organisation owning the domain. It knows how much to check depending on which country the domain is in. This will still protect against virtually all phishing attacks excepe for the rare cases where a host within the company is subverted for use in the phishing scam. |
24/3/2006 |
I am intending to upgrade the phishing net so that it has a less strict mode of operation. There is a file http://spamcheck.freeapp.net/two-level-tlds which is plain text and lists all the top-level domain names and all the second-level domain names used by every country to name categories of sites in their respective countries. If these parts of the domain name match, and the next name from the right, then we accept the link as valid. |