tnef screwed up my queue

Pete Russell pete at ENITECH.COM.AU
Tue Aug 2 08:35:29 IST 2005


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will 4.44-6 version of MailScanner fix this?

Julian Field wrote:
> 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-----
>>> From: MailScanner mailing list [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:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>> -----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:
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please can you copy a TNEF Postfix message file on a web
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>         
>>>>>
>>>>> site and mail
>>>>>  
>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>> me a URL?
>>>>>> I need something to try it with. I suspect I'm just         
>>>
>>> missing a chdir   
>>>
>>>>>> somewhere.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>         
>>>>>
>>>>> Julian,
>>>>>
>>>>> I also get leftover tnef files in mqueue.in and I am using       
>>>
>>> sendmail on   
>>>
>>>>> RHEL 3/4 with various MS versions (4 different from 4.34 to 4.40).
>>>>> Fortunately sendmail is not affected my those leftovers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Denis
>>>>>  
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> Julian,
>>>>
>>>> I also get occasional tnef files in my mqueue.in, using     
>>>
>>> sendmail 8.13.1   
>>>
>>>> and MS 4.4x.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> What filenames are they?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Julian,
>>
>> Here an example of my config, mqueue.in and maillog.
>>
>> MailScanner.conf contains:
>>
>> Expand TNEF = yes
>> Deliver Unparsable TNEF = no
>> TNEF Expander = internal
>> TNEF Timeout = 120
>>
>> /var/spool/mqueue.in contains:
>>
>> # 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
>>
>> /var/log/maillog contains:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Adri.
>>
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