PDF errors again

Martin Sapsed m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK
Tue Sep 9 09:25:40 IST 2003


Mark Nienberg wrote:
> Sophos has problems with certain PDFs and generates the error message you are
> seeing.  They know about the problem.  This was definitely true in 3.72.  I'm not sure
> if they have fixed it in 3.73 or not.  If you want to allow these attachments through, in
> spite of their not being scanned, you can add
>
> Allowed Sophos Error Messages = "corrupt", "0x80040202"
>
> but only if you are using the latest version of MailScanner.  See the thread
> "Unexpected Error?" from approx Aug 8.

 From what I gathered from Sophos support, the PDF's they have a problem
with are ones generated by some non-Adobe PDF creators. The problem was
supposed to have been fixed in 3.72 (but wasn't) and appears to be still
present in 3.73 :-(

Cheers,

Martin

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Martin Sapsed
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University of Wales, Bangor             Jesus of Nazareth



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