A guide to installing and using MailScanner, and a complete training manual describing its operation and use by Julian Field.

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Version 4.60 1st June 2007
   
14/6/2007 - Released beta 4.61.3. Some Postfix problems fixed, among other things.
9/6/2007 - Released updated version of the MailScanner Book. It is now up to date with version 4.61, the latest release.
2/6/2007 - Released beta 4.61.1. This includes support for direct communication with clamd and so should be considerably faster than the clamd support in version 4.60. Thanks to Rick Cooper for this.
1/6/2007 - Released stable version 4.60.8. Major new feature this month is the ability to compress all the attachments into a zip file, thereby saving space on mail servers when people attach large uncompressed files to messages.
30/5/2007 - Postfix patch fix for Postfix 2.3 and 2.4. Please would Postfix users help test this for me!
27/5/2007 - New feature: Replace all a message's attachments with a zip file containing them.
25/5/2007 - New beta release including patches for "p record" support in Postfix 2.3 and Postfix 2.4.
21/5/2007 - Released another beta. Previous beta has major bug (sorry!) in RBL code. This bug was not present in the last stable release, so no reason to replace your stable installations.
20/5/2007 - Released another beta. Updated a whole bunch of the required Perl modules and there is now a "--nomodules" command-line option to skip the installation of the required Perl modules.
19/5/2007 - Released first beta of 4.60. See Change Log for details..
8/5/2007 - Improved install.sh script in ClamAV+SA package so it asks whether to build and install ClamAV or not. So you can now use an RPM build of ClamAV which will be very useful on Linux systems if you are using the "clamd" scanner.
1/5/2007 - Released new stable version 4.59.4. Main new feature this month is support for the command-line and daemon versions of the Avast virus scanner. Other changes are listed in the Change Log.
27/4/2007 - Released beta version 4.59.3 including support for clamd as another fast way of using ClamAV without depending on the Mail::ClamAV Perl module.
16/4/2007 - Support for ClamAV 0.90: Released updated version of the ClamAV and SpamAssassin package. This contains the latest versions of ClamAV (0.90.2) and the Mail::ClamAV Perl module (0.20) required for the "clamavmodule" virus scanner. You also need to make one change to your MailScanner.conf file: "Monitors for ClamAV Updates = /usr/local/share/clamav/*.inc/* /usr/local/share/clamav/*.cvd"
1/2/2007 - Released stable version 4.58. Many changes and improvements this month, please see the Change Log for more information.
30/1/2007 - Added configuration option to control delivery of notifications to senders of bad-size attachments, particularly 0-length attachments created by broken viruses.
28/1/2007 - Okay, this really is the last release before the stable release. The split-queues message kicking code is in, but will come out again if it proves troublesome.
28/1/2007 - Very particular circumstance may cause non-disarmed message to be tagged disarmed in the Subject: line bug has been fixed. New beta released.
23/1/2007 - Reached the 1 millionth download! Also released new beta version, in preparation for a new stable release in a week.
4/1/2007 - Have fixed long-standing bug where {Fraud?} tag would not appear where appropriate, and have demonstrated how to call a ruleset from within a Custom Function. Please test this, I intend producing a new stable release shortly.
17/12/2006 - Release 4.58.2. Do not use 4.58.1, it has a bug. If you are running this version, upgrade to 4.58.2. It should fail safe but some of your configuration settings may not work as intended, depending on what Perl version you have.
16/12/2006 - New beta release 4.58.1, a few minor changes mostly for specific customers.
2/12/2006 - Release of stable version 4.57.6. New "Max Spam Check Size" setting and "Modify Subject" settings can take "end" value.
27/11/2006 - Release Candidate 1 for 4.57 which should be released on 1st December.
30/10/2006 - Released Beta 4.57.3 to add various new features as requested by users. Next stable release planned for 1st December as it's now too late to do 1st November release.
17/10/2006 - Upgraded ClamAV+SpamAssassin easy-to-install package to ClamAV 0.88.5.
9/10/2006 - Released updated version with fix for bug when using things like "40k" in the "Max SpamAssassin Size" setting.
1/10/2006 - Release stable version 4.56. New this month: control of reports sent to senders of "too large" messages, Postfix 2.3 support, fine control of maximum size of message section sent to SpamAssassin, significant improvement to reliability of tnef extraction utility.
 
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