YAB: was Re: Problem with viruses with beta 4.35.2-1

[Julian Field]

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YAB = Yet Another Beta.

The last problem would only have shown up on some of the systems that have
had multiple versions of Perl installed on them. Some elements in the @INC
path were getting in the wrong order. A 1-word fix :-)

So 4.35.3-1 is out there at www.mailscanner.info.

Thanks for all your patience while we get these problems ironed out.

P.S. Next feature to hit the streets will be a phishing attack detector. It
finds links claiming to be from your bank which are actually from somewhere
else, and highlights them with a warning. Appears to work quite nicely so far.

At 22:19 11/10/2004, you wrote:
>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.

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Julian Field
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PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

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