TNEF still a problem?

[Julian Field]

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Bill McGonigle wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2005, at 05:34, Nigel kendrick wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that the same 9 emails were getting processed 
>> (archived and
>> blacklist checked) by MailScanner (4.44.6) in a loop without actually 
>> being
>> submitted for virus scanning and further processing/delivery.
>>
>> I also saw the list messages here about issues with TNEF and, lo, one 
>> of the
>> MailScanner messages in the 'loop' referred to expanding a TNEF file. 
>> I set
>> 'Expand TNEF = yes' to 'no' and things got moving again (with some very
>> hefty 'delay=' values - i.e.: delay=22295!!!)
>>
>> Other mail was being delivered during this period but obviously this 
>> needs a
>> fix. I notice Julian posted a TNEF patch - has this been tried by anyone
>> else yet and (noob hat on...) how do I apply it??
>
>
> FWIW, I switched to the external tnef processor on a troubled machine 
> and 30 messages blazed by that were chewing up the CPU previously. 

That's interesting. Maybe there's a new TNEF version out there that the 
module doesn't support properly. Has anyone checked the Changelog of the 
Convert::TNEF module? Am I a long way from the most recent version?

As for applying a patch:

Say for example that the patch is stored in /tmp/tnef.patch, then do
cd /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner
patch -p0 < /tmp/tnef.patch

It should say that it has successfully applied the hunks of the patch.

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