Corrupt messages in the queue: postfix 2.0.22, mailscanner 4.30.3

Josef Karthauser joe at TAO.ORG.UK
Mon May 10 18:49:50 IST 2004


Hi there,

I've just installed mailscanner (4.30.3) on a freebsd box running
postfix (2.0.22).  Some of the mail that mailscanner is modifying is
becoming corrupted:


    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 31992 bytes 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Filename Checks: Windows/DOS Executable (359109632 Textfile.txt                                                                                                                                     .exe) 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Other Checks: Found 1 problems 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Saved infected "Textfile.txt  .exe" to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20040509/359109632 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Saved infected "Textfile.zip" to /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20040509/359109632 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Requeue: 359109632 to BE67812C04 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Cleaned: Delivered 1 cleaned messages 
    May  9 21:01:51 beasty postfix/pipe[63608]: warning: corrupted queue file: active/B/BE67812C04
    May  9 21:01:52 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Sender Warnings: Delivered 1 warnings to virus senders 
    May  9 21:01:52 beasty MailScanner[62766]: Notices: Warned about 1 messages 
    May  9 21:01:52 beasty postfix/qmgr[63541]: 1EC0D12C06: from=<>, size=1095, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    May  9 21:01:52 beasty postfix/qmgr[63541]: warning: saving corrupt file "BE67812C04" from queue "active" to queue "corrupt"


Is this a bug, or a configuration problem at my end?  Would someone
please advise?

Many thanks,
Joe
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