TNEF problem

[Julian Field]

At 11:14 28/09/2001, you wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: S.R.Patterson [mailto:S.R.Patterson at SOTON.AC.UK]
> >Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:42 PM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: Re: TNEF problem
> >
> >
> >Finally it's VERY worthey of note that since this method aborts without
> >unpacking the attachment there is no guarantee that viruses won't get
>through
> >inside tnef type attachments.  If you're worried perhaps you (Jules) can
>check
> >on the return code of tnef and if it's -1 (failure) then you reject the
> >attachment as "Unexpandable archive, rejected" or something?  Or do you
>already
> >do this?
> >
> >Steve
>
>Hi,
>   We are running mailscanner 2.42 with TNEF 1.0.1. We are seeing a number of
>mails where TNEF gets stuck and aborted after 2 minutes and the mail is then
>delivered to the recipient.
>
>Is there any way to quarantine these unscanned mails/attachments?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brandon

This is fixed in version 2.50. If anything goes wrong with the TNEF
expansion, it will abandon the entire message as "unparsable" and refuse to
deliver any of it.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ