TNEF still a problem?

[Julian Field]

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On 23 Aug 2005, at 13:01, Stef Morrell wrote:
> Julian <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> I've just come across the same problem. Email gets caught up in a loop
> of trying to deal with the TNEF via the internal decoder and never  
> gets
> delivered. Switching to the external decoder resolves the problem.
>
> In the latest MailScanner you are shipping Convert::TNEF 0.17, which
> seems to be the latest version, as CPAN shell insists my Convert::TNEF
> is up to date.
>
> Here's the wierd thing...
>
> MailScanner -v doesn't list Convert::TNEF at all, even though I can
> clearly see it's in the code...

Fixed that now. Add
     Convert/TNEF.pm
to the list of optional modules just after this line:

>   my @Modules = qw/AnyDBM_File Archive::Zip Carp Convert::BinHex
> Convert::TNEF D
> ata::Dumper DirHandle Fcntl File::Basename File::Copy FileHandle
> File::Path File
> ::Temp HTML::Entities HTML::Parser HTML::TokeParser IO IO::File  
> IO::Pipe
> Mail::C
> lamAV Mail::Header Mail::SpamAssassin MIME::Base64 MIME::Decoder
> MIME::Decoder::
> UU MIME::Head MIME::Parser MIME::QuotedPrint MIME::Tools
> MIME::WordDecoder Net::
> CIDR POSIX SAVI Socket Sys::Syslog Time::localtime/;

This fix will be in the next release.
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Julian Field
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