1.2.24

🚨 Important Notice – Migration to DBD::MariaDB & Perl module updates 🚨

This release introduces critical changes that require manual actions:

1. The MailScanner Perl scripts have been migrated from DBD::mysql to DBD::MariaDB.

   • You must ensure the Perl module DBD::MariaDB is installed.
   • DBD::mysql can remain installed — removal is not required. What matters is that MailWatch is able to connect using DBD::MariaDB.
   • Please verify your MailScanner environment can connect to the database via DBD::MariaDB before upgrading in production.

2. You must copy the updated .pm (Perl module) files to the correct locations as described in the INSTALL instructions.

   • Follow the documented paths carefully to avoid missing or broken modules.
   • If the .pm files are not placed correctly, the new Perl scripts will not function as expected.

⚠️ Without completing these steps, MailWatch will not work properly. Please plan the upgrade accordingly.

What's Changed

Added

• Add support for new AV engine supported by MailScanner (avastd, eset, esetsefs, f-secure, f-prot, kaspersky, kse)
• Allow foo@*.domain.ext in allow/block lists (#1316)

Changed

• Update htmlpurifier library to 4.17.0
• Avoid usage of the deprecated utf8_encode function in the viewpart
• Better Linux OS recognition

Compatibility

• The minimal PHP version is now 5.6.
• Migrate MailScanner perl script to DBD:MariaDB
• Update GeoIP to support authentication by account id+license key

Fixes

• Fix release of text/x-mail messages (#1306)
• Improve ISO-8859 charset conversion (#1309)

New Contributors

• @sobolev-es made their first contribution in #1313
• @riksoft made their first contribution in #1316

Full Changelog: v1.2.23...v1.2.24

1.2.23

MailWatch 1.2.23

Changelog

Added

• Support for handling the uopz extension to prevent the application from breaking due to disabled exit calls by uopz.

1.2.22

MailWatch 1.2.22

Changelog

Fixes

• More relaxed regex for MaxMind geoip database download on HTTP/2 connection (#1289)
• Fix report email (#1209)
• Validate on new exim id format (#1294)
• Permit + and = chars in email for sendmail (#1291)
• Fix Message Listing on Mysql 8+ (#1295)
• Fix MaxMind database download when curl extension is not available (#1297)
• Update certificate data

1.2.21

MailWatch 1.2.21

Changelog

Improvements

• Enhance quarantine display to regard all HIDE configuration options like quarantine_report does (#1268)
• Hide snapd mount point (#1283)
• Improve performance of mailwatch_milter_relay.php (#1266)
• Added the ability to independently configure quarantine durations for spam and non-spam emails, allowing for greater flexibility and potential performance and storage improvements (#1281).

Fixes

• Fix for sendmail relay script (#1276)
• Fix syntax for implode function in quarantine.php (#1277)
• Add support for new 40 chars MaxMind apikey format (#1286)
• Fix download of MaxMind geoip database on HTTP/2 connection (#1287)

1.2.20

MailWatch 1.2.20

Changelog

Improvements

• Better compatibility with MailScanner milter relay (#1267, #1271)
• Added filters to search for released and learned mails (#1269)
• Improved quarantine report (#1270)
• Improved service status display (#1263)
• Better compatibility with PHP 8.1

Fixes

• Wrap words in the message details, message headers row (#1258)
• Fix status message after mailscanner reload (#1261)
• Corrected and improved german translation (#1262)

1.2.19

MailWatch 1.2.19

Changelog

Improvements

• More performant and reliable milter queue relay parsing
• Permit IPv4-mapped IPv6 address in audit_log table
• Add support for F-Secure 12 antivirus status (#1239)
• Better compatibility with PHP 8

Fixes

• Fix missing Serializer directory
• Prevent Logging failure in MailWatch.pm
• Prevent MailWatch.pm from dying prematurely
• Prevent SQLBlackWhiteList.pm from dying prematurely
• Prevent SQLSpamSettings.pm from dying prematurely
• Revert rule column to 191 chars (#1125)
• Remove some deprecated php functions and variables
• Correct directory check in msmail genericqueue()
• Require database class earlier to prevent fatal error on calling audit_log function (#1247)

1.2.18

MailWatch 1.2.18

Changelog

Improvements

• Add DB_PORT config value to specify a non-standard MySQL server port (#1213)
• Add new config flag to permit IMAP login without full email as username (#1211)
• Add support for F-Secure 12 antivirus
• Add support for ESET File Security antivirus

Fixes

• Fix errors on importing messages from MailScanner containing UTF8 chars in messageid and reports (#1208)
• Fix upgrade script

1.2.17

MailWatch 1.2.17

 

Changelog

Improvements

• Log failed login attempts to PHP error log with clients ip (#1202)

Fixes

• Upgrade rule_desc column length to 512 chars in sa_rules and mcp_rules tables
• Fix mailwatch_sendmail_relay.php coding problems (#1206)
• Quarantine reports to include multiple recipients (#1194)
• Fix undefined offset in reports page (#1200)
• Convert special HTML chars to HTML entities when importing SpamAssassin rules description
• Improve terminology used
• Fix SpamAssassin rule descriptions sorting
• Fix tools/Sendmail-Exim_queue/mailq.crontab and updated related documentation

v1.2.16

MailWatch 1.2.16

This release contains a BC Break: you should install Digest::SHA Perl module before upgrading.

Changelog

Compatibility

• Permit Sendmail 15-chars-long MessageId in input validation (#652)

Fixes

• Fix PHP 7 compatibility in mailwatch_quarantine_report script (#1167)
• Add missing translation entry for Latin American Spanish
• Fix quote handling in mailwatch_milter_relay.php (#1170)
• Use Digest::SHA instead of Digest:SHA1 in MailWatch.pm (#1190)

Improvements

• Add support for IPV6 clients in audit_log table (#1178)
• Better handling of queuedir (#1173)
• Add row hover effect in rep_total_mail_by_date report
• Add tooltips on truncated fields

v1.2.15

MailWatch 1.2.15

Changelog

Compatibility

• Add MaxMind License Key support (#1166)

Fixes

• Adjust avast virus regex (#1133)
• Set RPC Server internal and response charset encoding to UTF-8 (#1156)

Improvements

• Added Avast support (#1117)