Problem with viruses with beta 4.35.2-1

[Hywel Burris]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
> Sent: 11 October 2004 21:21
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Problem with viruses with beta 4.35.2-1
> 
> I have just managed to re-create your problem (involved 
> uninstalling perl and forcing up2date to do nasty things :-) 
> Good news: This change solved the problem for me.
> 
> At 21:05 11/10/2004, you wrote:
> >At 19:27 11/10/2004, you wrote:
> >>Since upgrading to the last 2 versions when a virus gets 
> caught I am 
> >>seeing them looping which is stopping new mails from being 
> processed.
> >>The error I am seeing in debug is:-
> >>
> >>format error: can't find EOCD signature
> >>  at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 558
> >>Undefined subroutine &MIME::QuotedPrint::encode_qp called at 
> >>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm line 74.
> >
> >Can you try this for me please?
> >
> >Edit /usr/sbin/MailScanner. At line 52 you should find
> >         require MIME::Base64;
> >Please add a line immediately beneath that that says
> >         require MIME::QuotedPrint;
> >
> >Then kill and re-run MailScanner.
> >--

Hi Julian,

Thanks for the Reply, I am now getting the following errors in
/var/log/maillog:-

Oct 11 22:06:06 mail MailScanner[21134]: Cannot parse
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/21134/i9BKeBCv014736.header and , Can't
locate object method "init" via package "MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint" at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/MIME/Decoder.pm line 179

Regards

Hywel


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