Quarantine loses mail

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jan 17 11:41:43 GMT 2004


Please try the latest beta and see if it still occurs.
If it does then please send me exact details of your configuration so I can
try to reproduce the problem.

At 07:06 16/01/2004, you wrote:
>Greetings, all,
>
>I got a message from a client, quoting a cleaned message message:
>
>
> > This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The original e-mail message contained potentially dangerous content,
> > which has been removed for your safety.
> >
> > The content is dangerous as it is often used to spread viruses or to gain
> > personal or confidential information from you, such as passwords or credit
> > card numbers.
> >
> > If you wish to receive a copy of the original email, please
> > e-mail <mailto:admin at bogachiel.net>admin at bogachiel.net and include the
> whole of this message
> > in your request.
> >
> > At Mon Jan 12 19:32:54 2004 the content filters said:
> >    MailScanner: Found a form in HTML message
> >
> > Note to Help Desk: Look on Bogachiel Guard Station in
>
> > /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20040112 (message i0D3WeWx002953).
>
>
>I went to the suggested folder and looked at the message, to check if it
>was valid content that I should forward to them. To my surprise, it was
>the warning message quoted above, *not* the original message. I believe
>I've seen this before a couple of times.
>
>Is there a bug? Or did I screw something up?
>
>This was under 4.24-5, which I've been running up until about an hour ago
>when I reved to SA 2.61 and MS 4.25-14.
>
>Van
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