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ORDB RBL is closing down

Quote from http://www.ordb.org/news/?id=38:

We regret to inform you that ORDB.org, at the ripe age of five and a half, is shutting down. It’s been a case of a long goodbye as very little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while.
We encourage system owners to remove ORDB checks from their mailers immediately and start investigating alternative methods of spam filtering.

So, if you use relays.ordb.org in exim RBL ACL, or ORDB-RBL in the MailScanner “Spam List” setting, remove it asap.Note: We do not configure either exim or MailScanner to use this RBL when we perform the MailScanner Sevice package work

ClamAV Oversized.zip errors

If you’re unexpectedly seeing the following in /var/log/maillog for emails blocked with zip file attachments:ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: Oversized.Zip::Then you may have not reinstalled the Mail::ClamAV perl module after upgrading ClamAV recently. The MailScanner Front-End does upgrade the perl module for you, but if you perform the ClamAV upgrade manually, then you need to be sure to run:

/scripts/perlinstaller –force Mail::ClamAV

It’s important to use –force otherwise the perl module most likely won’t be reinstalled (i.e. if the version of the perl module hasn’t changed).Then restart MailScanner:

service MailScanner restart

New ClamAV v0.88.7

ClamAV have released a new version 0.88.7 with the following changes:

Mon Dec 11 02:47:03 CET 2006—————————-

Want to make spam detection more aggressive?

We’ve recently started including the following SpamAssassin score modifications to help boost the identification of incoming spam with MailScanner. To do it yourself, create a file called /etc/mail/spamassassin/configserver.cf and add the following lines:

score BAYES_99 5.0score URIBL_SBL 5.0score URIBL_AB_SURBL 5.0score URIBL_OB_SURBL 5.0score URIBL_PH_SURBL 5.0score URIBL_SC_SURBL 5.0score URIBL_WS_SURBL 5.0score URIBL_JP_SURBL 5.0

Then reload MailScanner:

service MailScanner reload

That’s it. This makes your Bayesian database have a greater say in what is very likely to be spam and also boosts the scores of emails that contain URI’s in known spam from various URI RBL spam lists

ConfigServer cPanel Services

We’ve decided to simplify our cPanel Server Service packages to a single package (with a MailScanner option). This has been done for a one main reason – we’ve found that many people who were purchasing the smaller packages were needing the security features of the large packages and weren’t benefitting from them, frequently purchasing additional services from us to bring their servers up to the Full Service spec.To better service our customers we’ve created a single package that tackles all of the apsects of server security and management that we deal with. We’ve reduced the price of what was the cPanel Full Service package for the new all encompassing package.We have not removed any features at all whilst doing this.We hope the change benefits our customers in making their servers more secure and managable.

New MailScanner Front-End (MSFE) v3.6

Changes:

  • Fixed file ownership issue that affected /etc/cron.d/mscpanel.sh
  • Added In/Outgoing Queue View

If you don’t already have a download account and wish to upgrade MSFE and have purchased an installation service package from us in the past, email sales@waytotheweb.com and we’ll provide you with a download account for http://download.webumake.com

Problems with ClamAV v0.90RC

Please note that as of writing you should not upgrade ClamAV to v0.90RC. The Mail::ClamAV perl module (v0.17) will not compile with this version of ClamAV installed and will therefore break MailScanner.For now you should remain on ClamAV v0.88.5 until either the ClamAV or the Mail::ClamAV developers resolve the issue.