MailScanner

Changes:

• Added improved mysql maintenance of the mailwatch database
• Updated Mailwatch to v1.04 (fixes PHP v5 compatibility problems)
• Fixed problem with MailWatch and GeoIP (fixes MySQL v5 compatibility problems)
• Added MailScanner version display in the WHM UI

Upgrade can be done through WHM > ConfigServer MailScanner FE > Upgrade MSFE

Changes:

• Fixed a problem where DCC was not working with SpamAssassin when running through MailScanner (worked fine through SA directly) caused by undocumented changes in the spam.assassin.prefs.conf MailScanner configuration file and obvious bug in the way MailScanner is calling SA, as SA is behaving differently when called indirectly through MS than if run directly.

This release appears to be mostly bug fixes. Upgrade can be done through MSFE or use the following if you don’t have it:http://www.configserver.com/cp/upgrade.html

The most recent version of MailScanner contains a new feature called watermarking which is designed to prevent so-called backscatter bounces from joe-jobbing. Joe-jobbing is when a spammer sends out email from a spoofed email address on your server. The spam was not actually sent from your server, but your server receives the bounces from these spams.Watermarking in MailScanner adds an encrypted ‘watermark’ to each mail sent through your server, and any legitimate bounces (emails with a null sender) should contain this watermark. If a bounce does NOT contain the watermark, it is marked as spam. Unfortunately there is a bug in this system where read receipts from certain mail programs, which are sent with no sender so they look like bounces but they do not contain the watermark, are being marked as spam by MailScanner.Until this bug is fixed in MailScanner, if you are experiencing this problem we would recommend that you disable the watermarking feature. To do this, in the MailScanner configuration go to the section called “Watermarking” and set the options Use Watermarking, Add Watermark, and Check Watermarks with no sender to no, then click Change.

Changes:

• Modified MailScanner init script to workaround a MailScanner bug where MailScanner doesn’t bother tidying up the incoming mail processing directory properly
• Copied the clean.quarantine cron job to periodically tidy up the MailScanner incoming mail processing directory (see above)
• New version of MailScanner v4.62.9

A new version of ClamAV has been released:

This release fixes stability and other issues of 0.91. See the ChangeLogfor the full list.

Upgrade can be done through WHM or by following:http://www.configserver.com/cp/upgrade.html

A new version of ClamAV has been released. The update adds a bunch of new features to ClamAV, but most importantly for MailScanner users, fixes a bug which caused the MailScanner child processes to consume large amount of server resources on startup.Upgrade:

If you are finding chkservd restarting lfd, antirelayd, mailscanner or other monitored process then there’s a bug in the latest chkservd. cPanel have been informed via the EDGE users mailing list (just now). Whilst waiting for a fix, you have two options:1. Untick the monitored services that chkservd keeps restarting falsely in WHM > Service Monitor > under the Monitor list. The dowside of this is that those processes won’t be monitored if they fail. You will also need to tick them again once cPanel have fixed chkservd2. Apply the following modification yourself. The upside is that monitoring continues, the downside is that it’s unofficial and will be overwritten after a upcp upgrade:Edit /usr/local/cpanel/libexec/chkservd and go to line 369 and change it from:

If you receive the following email on cPanel v11 and you’re running our MailScanner package or are not using the cPanel inbuilt SpamAssassin setup:

Changes:

• Rewritten license module to remove all reliance on perl versions

If you see a blank page in WHM for MSFE after upgrading from a previous version, upgrade to this release by following the instructions here:http://www.configserver.com/cp/msfeinstaller.html