There's a new version of ClamAV. Details here, update instructions for MailScanner users here.

When running /scripts/perlinstaller you might be seeing this error:




This is being caused by the renaming of a function call in CPAN.pm which cPanel relies upon. Although there now appears to be a fix in the EDGE tree from the report I logged in bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3710

There is a new version of CPAN.pm release at cpan.org this morning that addresses the issue.

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Changes in this new release to the script are:

v2.29 - New version of MailScanner 4.49.7

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I'm still finding an inordinate number of phpBB forums on client servers that are below v2.0.19. You would have thought that there's been enough attention to the vulnerabilities in this lacklustre forum (from a coding perspective) that people would be on top of it all the time (if not banning it from their servers).

Ah well, keeps me busy

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We have had a lot of reports about MailScanner failing with perl module errors. We're finding that this has nothing to do with MailScanner at all. It's because clients are not excluding perl updates from their OS providers update utility (e.g. yum or up2date). There was a recent update to RH based OS's with a new iteration of perl which fixes some security bugs. Most likely this has downgraded installed version of perl (perhaps v5.8.7) to v5.8.0 which won't contain all the perl modules needed to run many things including MailScanner, cPanel and it will almost definitely break cPanel stats.

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Well, with the advent of courier-imap and multi-session login for IMAP now available we've decided to move our sales@waytotheweb.com joint mailbox from POP3 access using Public ShareFolder to using an IMAP account on our local server. I've moved over to Thunderbird and am enjoying using it. There are some important functions from Outlook that I miss, especially having it remember frequently used folders to move mail items to, though there is a workaround. I am enjoying being able to view emails in the format they arrived in rather than the bastardised format that Outlook stores email - it still amazes me how an email client can both store email bodies in a different format to which they were delivered and to also ruin email headers to make them next to useless. Unfortunately, Outlook is a well featured email client, but I'm not sad to see the back of it.

The move was important to us. We keep all email, going back to before 1998 when we started this business and so it needs to be a robust solution. The main gotcha was that courier-imap doesn't like you using either a slash or a dot in folder names, which meant for a lot of renaming for some parts of our folder structure. Other than that, the only real issue with Thunderbird/IMAP is the somewhat flaky new email detection, but I'm getting used to it

Due to popular demand, I have added a mailing list for this blog. It's for announcement of new blog entries only and emails will be a simple title and link to the new blog entry. Access to the list is always available from the menu on the right or here.

There is a new release of the MailScanner script:

v2.28  - Added DB_File to the required perl module list
       - New version of MailScanner 4.48.4
 

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I upgraded to Firefox v1.5 yesterday without any problems. Quite a few extensions were disabled, but either upgrading or simply reinstalling them fixed them all up except for the excellent googlebar. Since they no longer seem to be developing it anymore, I decided to hack the XPI file and it works just fine in v1.5 of firefox now.

For those that are desperate for their Googlbar, you can download my hacked version of googlebar-0.9.12.01-fx.xpi. Just install it and then restart Firefox.

There's a new version of mod_security that has just been released. Here are the details:

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