ASK 2.3.beta2 Released

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

ASK V2.3.beta2 is now available for downloads. This version comes with a
large collection of new features (and hopefully, a small collection of
new bugs :)).

The ChangeLog (2.3.beta1's ChangeLog included for the convenience of those
still running 2.2):

V2.3.beta2

- White/Ignore and Blacklists can be spread over multiple files. Only the
  first one will be written to by ASK but all will be used to match. The sa=
mple
  config file also includes a "-local" version of each list file suitable f=
or
  local editing (prevents conflicts).

- Regular expressions are "escaped" before being added to the whitelist.=20
  If something like "[email protected]" is added, it will be converted
  to "paganini@paganini\.net"

- X-Primary-Address takes precedence over all other headers when checking f=
or
  the sender's address (as suggested by Jason Mastaler). It is *not* used to
  send back any messages (nastygrams/confirmations).

- The "Resent-From" field now takes precedence over Reply-To: and From:

- Queue listing is now reverse-sorted by file modification time.

- Confirmations will cause both the sender in the confirmation *and* the
  sender in the queued message to be added to the whitelist.

- Regular expression match: From/To in the lists will match in a slightly
  different way. Things like foo@bar (looking like a complete email) will
  be translated internally into "^foo@bar" (to avoid oo@bar from matching
  as foo@bar). All the rest is left intact (so, for instance, @bar will
  match anything having @bar anywhere in the string).

- Whitelist is checked before blacklist and ignorelist. This allows people
  to ignore an entire domain while allowing access to certain people from
  that domain, for instance (always make sure you never have your email in
  any of your lists).

- Senders will not be added to the lists if they are already there.

- Fixed bug that prevented Eudora from working correctly with the "mailto:"
  links (Eudora dislikes single quotes).

- Bulk/Junk have been removed from the sample configuration file.

- Messages can now be saved in "IMAP" format. Many thanks to Dan Pewzner for
  this brilliant idea and sponsorship.

- distutils installation has been phased out. A new Makefile has been added=
 to
  create the RPM and TAR files (soon, .DEB)

- Heavy remodeling in the remote commands code. Lots of small bugs ironed o=
ut.

- Quotes are now allowed in the configuration files.


V2.3.beta1

- List edits will handle quoting properly

- X-ASK-Info now shows the "approving" whitelist line, if that's the case.

- Support for the "*_mailbody.txt" files is slowly being phased out

- Finnish Translation Added (thanks to Reijo Korhonen)

- A space between the "mailto:" and the real email address was confusing so=
me
  browsers. Fixed.

- A timestamp is automatically appended to all X-ASK-Info headers.

- Junk/Bulk messages are now queued with the appropriate warning in the
  X-ASK-Info header.

Please report any errors to me, to the a-s-k-users list or to the forums
(you ARE subscribed to a-s-k-users, aren't you? ;)).

Make sure you take a look at the sample/sample_askrc as it contains new
configuration options.

Many thanks to those who sponsor ASK with contributions, ideas and patches.

Happy Spam Killing. =3D)

Regards,
Paga

--=20
Marco Paganini          | UNIX / Linux / Networking
[email protected]   | PGP: http://www.paganini.net/pgp/
http://www.paganini.net | Magnus Frater te spectat...

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