HTML To Text tends to cause some weird loop..??

Dj Tremors djTremors at NEWJACKSWING.DYNDNS.ORG
Tue Sep 30 14:10:21 IST 2003


Firstly, Is it normal for MailScanner logs to appear every 5-10 seconds as
below??

Sep 30 22:58:05 newjackswing MailScanner[21972]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:58:10 newjackswing MailScanner[21972]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:58:14 newjackswing MailScanner[22041]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:58:20 newjackswing MailScanner[22041]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:58:24 newjackswing MailScanner[22108]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:58:30 newjackswing MailScanner[22108]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:58:34 newjackswing MailScanner[22175]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:58:40 newjackswing MailScanner[22175]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:58:44 newjackswing MailScanner[22241]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...

What my main problem is that if I turn on HTMl To Text in MailScanner.conf
as below and I receive either spam or something that's got HTML in it,
MailScanner seems to forever get into a loop.. as further below:

Convert HTML To Text = yes

causes (sorry for >80 columns or large email)...

Sep 30 22:49:51 newjackswing MailScanner[16475]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 30 22:49:54 newjackswing MailScanner[16475]: Content Checks: Need to
convert HTML to plain text in 1 messages
Sep 30 22:49:55 newjackswing MailScanner[17499]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 3744 bytes
Sep 30 22:49:55 newjackswing MailScanner[17499]: Spam Checks: Starting
Sep 30 22:49:56 newjackswing MailScanner[17499]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 30 22:49:59 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:49:59 newjackswing MailScanner[17499]: Content Checks: Need to
convert HTML to plain text in 1 messages
Sep 30 22:50:00 newjackswing MailScanner[17571]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:50:00 newjackswing MailScanner[17571]: Postfix queue structure is
depth 1
Sep 30 22:50:00 newjackswing MailScanner[17571]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 3744 bytes
Sep 30 22:50:00 newjackswing MailScanner[17571]: Spam Checks: Starting
Sep 30 22:50:02 newjackswing MailScanner[17571]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 30 22:50:07 newjackswing MailScanner[17571]: Content Checks: Need to
convert HTML to plain text in 1 messages
Sep 30 22:50:09 newjackswing MailScanner[17820]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:50:12 newjackswing MailScanner[16678]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 3744 bytes
Sep 30 22:50:12 newjackswing MailScanner[16678]: Spam Checks: Starting
Sep 30 22:50:13 newjackswing MailScanner[16678]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 30 22:50:17 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:50:17 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: Postfix queue structure is
depth 1
Sep 30 22:50:19 newjackswing MailScanner[18060]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:50:20 newjackswing MailScanner[16678]: Content Checks: Need to
convert HTML to plain text in 1 messages
Sep 30 22:50:22 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 3744 bytes
Sep 30 22:50:22 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: Spam Checks: Starting
Sep 30 22:50:23 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Sep 30 22:50:28 newjackswing MailScanner[17820]: Using locktype = flock
Sep 30 22:50:28 newjackswing MailScanner[17820]: Postfix queue structure is
depth 1
Sep 30 22:50:28 newjackswing MailScanner[17641]: Content Checks: Need to
convert HTML to plain text in 1 messages
Sep 30 22:50:29 newjackswing MailScanner[18123]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.23-11 starting...
Sep 30 22:50:33 newjackswing MailScanner[18060]: Using locktype = flock


But if I turn the HTML conversion off, it seems to work fine but doesn't
catch HTML spam.. or whatever that possibly benefits from it..


any ideas? Oh, I also use ClamAV if that could be a possibility...


"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for
the rest of your life." - George Vieira (Dj Tremors)



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