could not analyze/too many attachments

[Julian Field]

If you don't like it, change it.
Read languages.conf and you will see there is a "NoticeSubject" entry in there.

As a general point, before posting stuff like this to the list *please*
check that you can't configure the setting you don't like. Repeatedly
saying RTFM is getting kinda tedious.

At 10:32 10/12/2003, you wrote:
>On the subject of confusing error messages, the following is starting to get
>a tad irritating:
>
>Subject: Warning: E-mail viruses detected
>
>Body:
>
>The following e-mail messages were found to have viruses in them:
>
>     Sender: a at b.c.d
>IP Address: 10.2.3.4
>  Recipient: me at here
>    Subject: Whatever
>  MessageID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Report: MailScanner: No AVI movies allowed (worldcup1.avi)
>
>Excuse me, it's not a virus!
>
>I've had a quick peek at the report files and it seems that there is no
>clear delineation between viruses and other blocked attachments.  Am I
>missing something obvious here?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Phil
>---------------------------------------------
>Phil Randal
>Network Engineer
>Herefordshire Council
>Hereford, UK
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: 09 December 2003 18:23
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: could not analyze/too many attachments
> >
> >
> > At 16:54 09/12/2003, you wrote:
> > >Julian,
> > >    I know there was a thread recently about "Could not
> > >analyze message" coming out in the virus report, when the
> > >issue is really "too many attachments" from the
> > >"Maximum Attachments Per Message" setting.  I did a bonehead
> > >move of setting this to 20 instead of 200, and then had to
> > >quarantine the problem message after the sender complained,
> > >stare at it and MS code, and figure out the problem.  Will
> > >this "Could not analyze" message be clearer in the next
> > >version?
> >
> > You can already change the error message, but only for all unparsable
> > messages. It's in your languages.conf file, the line that
> > starts "CantAnalyze".
> >
> > However, I agree that it should be separate from that error
> > message. The
> > fix will be in the next release, but attached are patches to
> > Message.pm,
> > MessageBatch.pm and languages.conf (English only right now) which will
> > implement it.
> >

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