TNEF still a problem?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 23 14:33:49 IST 2005


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Can anyone put up a message on a web server somewhere, that contains  
one of the bad TNEF messages please?
I can't reproduce the problem. I've done a couple of tweaks, but I'm  
stabbing in the dark at the moment.

On 23 Aug 2005, at 13:49, Julian Field wrote:

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> On 23 Aug 2005, at 13:01, Stef Morrell wrote:
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>> 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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