Mailscanner crash with word doc in attachment

[Julian Field]

At 08:45 13/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When mailscanner receive a mail with a word document in attachement, 
>Mailscanner crash (if virus scanning is enabled). A core is generated 
>under a directory (HAAxxxx) in the incomming directory of mailscanner. 
>With the core, the header and the attachement of the message is also 
>present
 but the process of mailscanner is crashed and the mails in queue 
>are blocked until a desactivate the virus scanning parameter

>
>Maillog without debug mode, with a word document in attachment in mail 
>queue (Mailscanner crash with a zombie process) :
>
>Mar 12 11:30:10 MailScanner[25207]: New Batch: Found 2 messages waiting
>Mar 12 11:30:10 MailScanner[25207]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 16855 
>bytes
>Mar 12 11:30:10 MailScanner[25207]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Mar 12 11:30:10 MailScanner[25307]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner 
>version 4.28.6 starting...
>Mar 12 11:30:17 MailScanner[25281]: Using locktype = flock
>Mar 12 11:30:20 MailScanner[25185]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 16855 
>bytes
>Mar 12 11:30:20 MailScanner[25185]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Mar 12 11:30:20 MailScanner[25327]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner 
>version 4.28.6 starting...
>
>
>Starting debugging mode :
>
>Starting MailScanner...
>In Debugging mode, not forking...
>
>
>Messages in Maillog while mailscanner processing in debug mode :
>
>Mar 12 11:33:43 MailScanner[25619]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner 
>version 4.28.6 starting...
>Mar 12 11:33:49 MailScanner[25619]: lock.pl sees Config  LockType =  flock
>Mar 12 11:33:49 MailScanner[25619]: lock.pl sees have_module =  0
>Mar 12 11:33:49 MailScanner[25619]: Using locktype = flock
>Mar 12 11:33:49 MailScanner[25619]: New Batch: Scanning 3 messages, 22643 
>bytes
>Mar 12 11:33:49 MailScanner[25619]: Spam Checks: Starting
>Mar 12 11:33:49 MailScanner[25619]: RBL Checks: returned 0
>Mar 12 11:33:50 MailScanner[25619]: SpamAssassin returned 0
>Mar 12 11:33:50 MailScanner[25619]: RBL Checks: returned 0
>Mar 12 11:33:51 MailScanner[25619]: SpamAssassin returned 0
>Mar 12 11:33:52 MailScanner[25619]: RBL Checks: returned 0
>Mar 12 11:33:54 MailScanner[25619]: SpamAssassin returned 0
>Mar 12 11:33:54 MailScanner[25619]: Created attachment dirs for 3 messages
>
>At this time, Mailscanner crash
 And the messages aren’t sent !!!
>
>What can I do ?

Please do a "file core" command.
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Julian Field
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