Problem with viruses with beta 4.35.2-1

[Julian Field]

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At 22:11 11/10/2004, you wrote:
> > -----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

Access would be handy, after all.
I think it's just an issue created by screwed up Perl installations.
--
Julian Field
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PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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