Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment deliver problems

[Dan Williamson]

Just a thought... in case you may have missed this.
My customers always phone in on this one.

If Outlook express is blocking your ability to open attachments follow this,

Open Outlook Express,
Choose Tools form the File bar,
Choose Options,
Select the Security tab,
Uncheck, "Do not allow attachments..."
Close Outlook Express, then open again.

That should give you the ability to open attachments.

regards,
-dan



-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of brichter
Sent: March 28, 2004 10:25 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment deliver
problems


That's exactly what I am expecting to occur

It's not though, that's why I was wondering what I was doing wrong.  It's
noted in my logs I included that the action taken on the spam was
ATTACHMENT, DELIVER.

The test message I get that was detected as SPAM, has NO attachment
though. It just has the subject modified. (I have it set to modify subject
also on Spam) The original message is there with no attachment.

I have no new body with an attachment.  Even though as you can see from my
logs it says the action was ATTACHMENT, DELIVER..

Could it be my version of Perl?

If I could get this functioning properly, then it will get me through what
my Boss wants for end users.  Thanks for all the help.


On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> Exactly what resulting message are you expecting?
>
> What "attachment deliver" (it doesn't matter about the order) will do is
> take the original spam message, and turn it into an RFC-822 attachment of
a
> new replacement message. The body of the new replacement message will say
a
> bit about what happened, give the From+To+Subject information, and include
> an attachment which is the original message. Not all mail apps can
actually
> handle RFC-822 but Outlook handles them perfectly. In Outlook you can open
> the attachment and it appears as a complete new message, which is exactly
> what should happen.
>
> What do you think should be happening?
>
> I will take a look at adding code to insert the SA report at the beginning
> of the message body. No guarantees though.
>
> At 03:01 29/03/2004, you wrote:
> >Only outbound, we don't check for spam or RBL on outbound stuff.
> >
> >It's tagging it as Spam.  It's just not converting it to a attachment
with
> >the report from the config.
> >
> >Everything looks good, it's just not doing the attachment, but it shows
in
> >the log that it's action is attachment deliver..
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Mike Kercher wrote:
> >
> > > Do you have any whitelisting rulesets that might be offsetting your
spam
> > > scoring or other rulesets?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > > > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of brichter
> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:34 PM
> > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Subject: Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment
> > > > deliver problems
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if someone could please help me confirm this
> > > > should work.
> > > >
> > > > I am on a last ditch effort to find a solution to my problem
> > > > without abandoning Mail Scanner.
> > > >
> > > > I have to be able to have end users forward a message to our
> > > > help desk when something fails the Spam Check to determine if
> > > > it's a false positive or not.  Since there is no way to pass
> > > > the REPORT information from Spam Assassin to Mail Scanner
> > > > (Outlook does NOT forward headers, and my Boss has told me to
> > > > find another solution if we cannot work around this) I have
> > > > found this might be a possible solution for my situation, I
> > > > just can't get it to work in Mail Scanner.  I have tried
> > > > everything I can think of.
> > > >
> > > > When I specify in my Mail Scanner config:
> > > >
> > > > Spam Actions = attachment deliver
> > > >
> > > > When a message is tagged as Spam I get this in the log:
> > > >
> > > > Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Spam Checks: Found 1
> > > > spam messages Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Spam
> > > > Actions: message i2T047Z01515 actions are attachment,deliver
> > > > Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Unscanned: Delivered
> > > > 1 messages
> > > >
> > > > But when I go to open that message, it has NOT been converted
> > > > into an attachment and appended onto the report file
> > > > designated in the Mailscanner.conf file.  I have tried
> > > > reversing the attachment deliver options, I have tried it on
> > > > High SCoring SPAM, normal Spam.  It NEVER gets converted into
> > > > an attachment.
> > > >
> > > > I am using Mailscanner-4.28.6-1
> > > >
> > > > I have searched the forums with no luck.  I just see
> > > > references to needing both attachment and deliver to get it
> > > > to work. (And I have that set)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks much
> > > >
> > >
>
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