MailScanner 4.28.6-1 on Mandrake 10.0 Community

[Julian Field]

Upgrade to 4.29. The announcement for 4.29 mentions that it provides
support for the latest Postfix snapshots.

At 19:18 01/04/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to get MailScanner 4.28.6 to work on Mandrake 10.0 Community,
>Postfix 2.1.0.  I beleive I have all the required perl modules, I have gone
>through that several times.
>
>When I start MailScanner in Debug mode, it will consume 100% of CPU.  It
>goes into a endless loop and does not return.  There is also no output of
>any form.  Nothing to standard out, and nothing in any Log files.  I have to
>kill it.
>
>So I started digging into the code, and it appears that in
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Postfix.pm, on line 386 there is a while
>statement:
>
>while(($rectype, $recdata) = ReadRecord($RQf)) {
>
>For some reason, ReadRecord($RQf) is returning blank values infinatley.
>This causes the while to go into a endless loop.
>
>Also, on line 383:
>
>seek $RQf, $MsgContSize+$DataOffset, 0;
>
>$MsgContSize has values like EE54EF798A.  I am sure this is wrong??  and
>could cause weard effects.
>
>The following is the output from MailScanner after I uncommented a few
>debugging print statements in Postfix.pm:
>
>[root at LinuxServer jtwatson]# MailScanner /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>In Debugging mode, not forking...
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 63
>ReadRecord: C "         355382             267               1
>0"
>Content size = EE54EF798A
>Data offset  =
>Num Recips   =
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 10
>ReadRecord: T "1080836014"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 22
>ReadRecord: S "debbiebonenfant at fse.us"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 27
>ReadRecord: A "client_address=192.xx.x.xx"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 36
>ReadRecord: A "message_origin=unknown[192.x.x.x]"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 14
>ReadRecord: A "helo_name=wk12"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 18
>ReadRecord: A "protocol_name=SMTP"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 15
>ReadRecord: W "     1080850414"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 20
>ReadRecord: O "Girlpower528 at aol.com"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 20
>ReadRecord: R "Girlpower528 at aol.com"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 0
>ReadRecord: M ""
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 44
>ReadRecord: N "Received: from wk12 (unknown [192.x.x.x])"
>ReadRecord: Got length byte 55
>ReadRecord: N " by mailserver.fse.us (Postfix) with SMTP id EE54EF798A"
>....
>....
>
>This keeps going forever......
>
>As you can see, something on my system is messed up.
>
>Does someone have any ideas what I should try next?
>
>- Regards
>
>Joseph Watson EIT
>
>Flint Surveying & Engineering
>5370 Miller Rd., Suite 13
>Swartz Creek, MI 48472
>PH  (810) 230-1333
>FAX (810) 230-7844

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