tnef screwed up my queue

[Julian Field]

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Attached is a patch to TNEF.pm to fix this problem.

Please let me know how you get on with this.

Adri Koppes wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
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>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 15:36
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: tnef screwed up my queue
>>
>>Adri Koppes wrote:
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Denis Beauchemin
>>>>Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 15:16
>>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>>Subject: Re: tnef screwed up my queue
>>>>
>>>>Julian Field wrote:
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>>>>>Please can you copy a TNEF Postfix message file on a web
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>>>>site and mail
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>>>>>me a URL?
>>>>>I need something to try it with. I suspect I'm just 
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>>missing a chdir 
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>>>>>somewhere.
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>>>>Julian,
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>>>>I also get leftover tnef files in mqueue.in and I am using 
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>>sendmail on 
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>>>>RHEL 3/4 with various MS versions (4 different from 4.34 to 4.40).
>>>>Fortunately sendmail is not affected my those leftovers.
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>>>>Denis
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>>>Julian,
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>>>I also get occasional tnef files in my mqueue.in, using 
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>>sendmail 8.13.1 
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>>>and MS 4.4x.
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>>What filenames are they?
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> 
>Julian,
>
>Here an example of my config, mqueue.in and maillog.
>
>MailScanner.conf contains:
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>Expand TNEF = yes
>Deliver Unparsable TNEF = no
>TNEF Expander = internal
>TNEF Timeout = 120
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>/var/spool/mqueue.in contains:
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># ls -l /var/spool/mqueue.in
>total 84
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  daemon   7344 Jun 10 06:35 tnef-7769-1.doc
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  daemon  76800 Jun 10 06:35 tnef-7769-2.doc
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>/var/log/maillog contains:
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>Jun 10 06:35:44 mail MailScanner[7769]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>116569 bytes Jun 10 06:35:51 mail MailScanner[7769]: Expanding TNEF
>archive at
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/7769/j5A4ZUTm008140/winmail.dat
>Jun 10 06:35:51 mail MailScanner[7769]: Corrupt TNEF winmail.dat that
>cannot be analysed in message j5A4ZUTm008140 Jun 10 06:35:51 mail
>MailScanner[7769]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting Jun 10 06:35:51
>mail MailScanner[7769]: SophosSAVI::ERROR:: Sweep could not proceed, the
>file was corrupted (538):: ./j5A4ZUTm008140/winmail.dat Jun 10 06:35:52
>mail MailScanner[7769]: Virus Scanning: SophosSAVI found 1 infections
>Jun 10 06:35:52 mail MailScanner[7769]: ClamAVModule::LibClamAV Error:
>Error reading TNEF message Jun 10 06:35:52 mail MailScanner[7769]: Virus
>Scanning: ClamAV Module found 1 infections Jun 10 06:35:53 mail
>MailScanner[7769]: Infected message j5A4ZUTm008140 came from
>xxx.xx.xxx.xx
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>Adri.
>
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