[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.45-BETA-2 is available

[David F. Skoll]

Hi,

MIMEDefang 2.45-BETA-2 is at http://www.mimedefang.org/node.php?id=1

The main change is a greatly-improved "watch-mimedefang" script.
This is a Tcl/Tk script for monitoring a MIMEDefang server.
The new version features four graphs showing various aspects of
the server: Number of busy slaves at a given instant, average
number of busy slaves during a SCAN request, average latency
of a SCAN, and average number of messages/second scanned.

A disadvantage of the old script was the need to install Tcl/Tk and
the X client libraries on your mail server.  The new version lets
you monitor a remote MIMEDefang installation over an SSH connection;
the traffic flowing over the SSH connection is very small.  So you can
run the rather CPU-intensive watch-mimedefang script on your desktop,
and have it monitor your mail server over an SSH connection, without
unduly loading the mail server.  It's really cool; give it a try!

Note that you must install MIMEDefang 2.45-BETA-2 on the mail server,
and you must use the watch-mimedefang script from 2.45-BETA-2 for this
to work.

Complete changelog since 2.44 follows.

Regards,

David.

2004-07-28  David F. Skoll  <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>

	* Version 2.45-BETA-2 released.

	* Makefile.in: Do not overwrite /etc/mail/sa-mimedefang.cf in
	install-redhat target

	* mimedefang-multiplexor.c: Track average latency of scan commands.

	* watch-mimedefang.in: Huge rewrite.  Displays a lot more info about
	the MIMEDefang server.  Can monitor a remote MIMEDefang server over
	a low-bandwidth SSH connection.

	* mimedefang.pl.in: Log helpful messages if clamd fails with an
	error (Tomas Kopal)

	* md-mx-ctrl.c: Support the "-i" command-line option to read commands
	from stdin and send results to stdout.  Used to support
	watch-mimedefang's low-bandwidth remote monitoring.


2004-07-23  David F. Skoll  <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>

	* Version 2.45-BETA-1 released.

	* mimedefang-filter.5.in: Clarified description of action_bounce.

	* mimedefang-multiplexor.c: Added support for keeping "load average"
	histories so you can see how loaded your system is.

	* mimedefang-multiplexor.c: Raw 'status' output includes time when
	multiplexor was first started.

	* md-mx-ctrl.8.in: Documented new 'load' and 'rawload' commands.

	* mimedefang.pl.in: Implemented a new set of RBL lookup functions
	that perform multiple lookups in parallel and allow you to set
	a timeout (the timeout applies to ALL lookups, not each individual
	lookup.)  These new functions require the Net::DNS module.

	* md-mx-ctrl.c: Implement 'load' and 'rawload' commands.

2004-07-15  David F. Skoll  <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>

	*  Version 2.44 RELEASED