Broken mail?

[Julian Field]

At 17:36 03/09/2002, you wrote:
>It was indeed that subject that was the problem.  The sender renamed the
>file more sensibly and it passed through without note.
>
>Perl 5.6.1 we're running.  I'm well behind on MailScanner versions so I'll
>not worry about it too much unless I see it after I finally do upgrade
>some time.

Unless lots of other people need the fix (and can't get it off the mailing
list), I'll continue directing my efforts to the major release, a month or
two away at the moment.

But if you want an interim release including that patch, do ask and I'll do it.

>On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Are you running Perl 5.8?
> > It looks like another occurrence of the problem discussed about 10 days
> > ago, for which I posted a patch on this list. My message subject was "Re:
> > Sys::Syslog Bug Report", dated 23/08/02.
> >
> > If you apply that patch, this should be fixed.
> >
> > Sorry I haven't had time to do a proper release of it, I've been rushed off
> > my feet having just added 1 staff member's entire job to my current load
> > (our Purchasing Manager is retiring).
> >
> > At 12:28 03/09/2002, you wrote:
> > >Hello, has anyone come across this one.  An attachment someone is sending
> > >causes mailscanner to break, with this message:
> > >
> > >Out of memory during "large" request for 2147487744 bytes, total sbrk() is
> > >9665888 bytes at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/Sys/Syslog.pm
> > >line 241.
> > >
> > >This blocks the queue processing and mail starts to build up.  Can anyone
> > >suggest (for the benefit of the sender) what it is about this Word
> > >attachment that causes this to happen?  The filename is:
> > >
> > >Content-Type: application/msword;
> > >   name="frank%20-%2079515jv.ptsb3%2072022002e.trad.doc"
> > >
> > >(For possible privacy reasons, I've changed some of the plain
> > >alphanumerics here to other plain alphanumerics).  It certainly looks odd,
> > >and the error is generated in the Syslog module, so it could be a message
> > >like this that is being generated and failing because of the oddness:
> > >
> > >Sep  3 12:24:02 khafre.cc.strath.ac.uk mailscanner[27623]: Found possible
> > >filename hiding in MVET_TOR.rtf.doc
> > >
> > >I'll suggest (when the queue dies down again!) renaming and resending to
> > >see if it is that document name.
> > >
> > >We're running quite an old version (with McAfee), so it's possible there
> > >will be some later changes in that module or elsewhere that will prevent
> > >this problem blocking the queue by now - I'll upgrade soon I promise!
> > >
> > >Jethro.
> > >
> > >. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > >. . .
> > >Jethro R Binks                                   Computing Officer, IT
> > >Services
> > >Mailmaster, Listmaster, Webmaster,       University Of Strathclyde,
> > >Glasgow, UK
> > >Cachemaster
> > >jethro.binks at strath.ac.uk
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
>
>
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>Jethro R Binks                                   Computing Officer, IT
>Services
>Mailmaster, Listmaster, Webmaster,       University Of Strathclyde,
>Glasgow, UK
>Cachemaster
>jethro.binks at strath.ac.uk

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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