Release notes for Symantec Mail Security 8.1.1.32

Symptom:  Fixed "Failed to get number of mail boxes issue."
Solution:  Code change

Symptom:  SMSDOM exits with "Unknown OS error" when mail1.box is missing and multiple mail boxes are configured.
Solution:  Code change

Symptom:  Minor spelling error in debug logs.
Solution:  Text output corrected.

Symptom:  Liveupdate notification goes out when not enabled to do so.
Solution:  Code changed.

Symptom:  Leap year logic caused issues in SSO tags
Solution:  Logic corrected with code change

Symptom:  Can not add large amount of domains to PAS white list.
Solution:  This is due to limitation of 32k for field size.  Adding logic to prevent going over this size.

Symptom:  Schedule scans can cause an issue when run at same time.  One option to run LU after LiveUpdate bypasses this.
Solution:  Changed code so only one can run at a time.

Symptom:  SMSDOM Write/Mail threads getting hung.
Solution:  Scan file handling logic has been modified to address this issue.

Symptom:  Manual scan should show appropriate message in server console
Solution:  Show task will show distintive message for manual scans - "SMSDOM Manual Scan Scanning"

Symptom:  PAS crashes if license file is missing
Solution:  PAS will not crash if license file is missing.  Message is now displayed that license is missing.

Symptom:  MIME to CD conversion should not happen if Manual or Schedule scan is not checked under any CF rule with body rule enabled.
Solution:  Code change

Symptom:  Any file enbedded on Structured Protected xlsx file is not getting scanned.
Solution:  Files embedded in structured protected xlsx will be scanned and threats will be detected.

Symptom:  Delete option does not work for threats gz file
Solution:  Any threat inside gz file will be deleted and a dummy delted.txt will be added into it to replace the threat

Symptom:  Change the initialization code on how nntask determines if already running.
Solution:  Code change

Symptom:  Crash with Unlink failed in DeleteLockFile "C errno: 13 (0xD): Permission denied"
Solution:  File locking code improved.

Symptom:  Last message sent is always held in mail.box with status "Symantec mail security scanning" when SAVMailThreads=1
Solution:  Scan threads logic is fixed to address this issue

Symptom:  Temp file created for scanning some time has conflicting temp names
Solution:  The logic is modified to create unique file name for files being scanned in temp location

Symptom:  Skip scanning containers exceeding the configured limits before copying the file to temp dir
Solution:  If the temp location free disk space is less than size of file being scanned, it will be skipped. No crash will occur

Symptom:  Defect discovered in Attachment Content Filtering (ACF)
Solution:  Verity upgraded to 10.15.0 to address this issue

Symptom:  Content Filtering rule not working if SMTPOriginator is empty
Solution:  CF will refer to both SMTPOriginator and From field during scan

Symptom:  Change the text "Also run this scan after LiveUpdate" in GUI of Scheduled Scan
Solution:  Text changed to "Also run this scan after new definitions arrive"

Symptom:  Alert does not work properly when sending to a Group and that group has a Mail Domain configured
Solution:  Code is fixed to lookup all members of the group

Symptom:  Upgrade to decomposer engine to newer version.
Solution:  Decomposer has been upgraded to version 5.2.3.3

Symptom:  Upgrade PAS engine (BEIK)
Solution:  PAS engine has been upgraded to version 6.3

Symptom:  Vulnerabilty found in Verity engine
Solution:  Verity has been upgraded to 10.15.0 with patches

Symptom:  Improve exception handling at every dynamic memory allocation and file locking mechanism
Solution:  Code has been improved to handle exceptions at dynamic memory allocations and file locking mechanism

Symptom:  Determine number of install/uninstall/upgrade instances for Mail Security for Domino
Solution:  Support is added to track the number of install/uninstall/upgrade instances. EULA changed to include transmitted details by this feature
 

Release notes for Symantec Mail Security 8.1.0.10

Symptom:  Need notes.ini parameter to ignore scan errors due to split content
Solution:  Added notes.ini parameter 'SAVSplitMessageDetection' with default value as 1 to ignore scan errors due to split content.

Symptom:  Limit SSO feature to e-mail routing only.
Solution:  Changed code to limit the SSO feature to only e-mail routing. Also removed options from Schedule/Manual scans.

Symptom:  Cannot disable automatic system reboot via silent install option.
Solution:  During SMSDOM silent install on windows with 'REBOOT=ReallySuppress', the system will not be rebooted after successful installation now.

Symptom:  SMSDOM does not report scan errors on containers' child files, but on parent only.
Solution:  The code can now reports scan errors on container’s child files along with their parent containers.

Symptom:  Leak in VSP error path.
Solution:  Code updated which handles the objects during unsuccessful parsing of VSP file. 

Symptom:  Implementation Guide change request for number of scanning threads.
Solution:  Implementation guide as well as the help database is now updated with correct

Symptom:  Need to change the "Fake body" message to something more meaningful like "Empty or Encrypted body"
Solution:  When the email has no body or encrypted body, it will be reported properly in the log messages.

Symptom:  UI validation should happen before saving mis-configured Alert.
Solution:  UI validation will be done before user enables and saves any Alert if checkbox of Administrator, Document author or

Symptom:  MIME to CD conversion should not happen on Manual or Schedule scan run if Content Filtering is disabled.
Solution:  MIME to CD conversion will not happen during Manual or Schedule scan if option ‘Scan for Content Filtering rule violations’ is disabled/unchecked.

Symptom:  SMSDOM fails to consume RR definition if RR runs prior to LU at very first time.
Solution:  Libraries have been updated. After fresh install of SMSDOM, when RR update is run for the very first time prior to LiveUpdate, RR definition will be consumed by SMSDOM.

Symptom:  LiveUpdate get's triggered on Hub as well as Spoke Server in Cluster Environment.
Solution:  Log message has been corrected.

Symptom: 'SMSDOM: Another instance of LiveUpdate is running.' message doesn’t get logged while RR is running.
Solution:  Code updated to notify 'Another Instance of LU is running message' on Domino Console and SAVLog.

Symptom:  OpenSSL 0.9.7c being used in NNTask.exe has publicly known vulnerability.
Solution:  OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 1.0.0e.

Symptom:  Change wording in sav.nsf / CF Rule for container (zip) to be changed to something more meaningful.
Solution:  The text "For Container (zip) file attachments" on CF Rule page is changed to "For any attachment container file (ie. zip, pptx, docx, etc.)".

Symptom:  Add new SPAM and AV definitions to SMSDOM package.
Solution:  Bundled standard spam and AV definitions have been updated.

Symptom:  Please include CPU 100% workaround into SMSDOM 8.1 conducfg.xml file.
Solution:  Premium Antispam will point to lighter rulesets.

Symptom:  Change wording in Implementation Guide of 'For Container (zip) file attachments' to For any attachment container file (ie. zip, pptx, docx, etc.).
Solution:  Implementation Guide has been updated.

Symptom:  CF rule is not applied properly if the cf precondition is set to 'EVERY_RECIPIENT_ATTR' or 'EVERY_RECIPIENT_INTERNET_DOMAIN_ATTR'.
Solution:  The CF rule will be applied based on whether the every recipient attributes/internet domain is matching with the entries in CF precondition.

Symptom:  LUA 2.3.1 needs to be packaged with SMSDOM 8.1 because some components will expire.
Solution:  LUA 2.3.1 has been packaged/ bundled with SMSDOM 8.1 ISO.

Symptom:  Integrate SMSDOM with DECOMPOSER 5.2.0.16.
Solution:  DECOMPOSER has been upgraded to version 5.2.0.16.