Intermittent Blank Emails

[Julian Field]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

As a possible solution to this, look in
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm. Around line 4190, there is
a chunk of code which needs 1 line adding to it, as highlighted in the
snippet below:

    $DisarmLinkURL = '';
    $DisarmLinkURL = $attr->{'href'} if exists $attr->{'href'};
    $DisarmInsideLink = 1;
--->>>    $DisarmInsideLink = 0 if $text =~ /\/\>$/; # JKF Catch />
empty A tags
    #print STDERR "DisarmInsideLink = $DisarmInsideLink\n";
  } elsif ($tagname eq 'img' && $DisarmWebBug) {
    #print "It's an image\n";
    if (exists $attr->{'width'}  && $attr->{'width'}<=2 &&
        exists $attr->{'height'} && $attr->{'height'}<=2) {

If you try this fix, please let me know (off-list) if it helps at all or
not.


Pentland G. wrote:

>In a newer developement it appears I have some more evidence.
>
>I turned off the "phishing" stuff and we haven't had another report.
>
>I'm still not fully convinced, I'm going to turn it back on and see if
>the reports start again...
>
>If they do then a newer version of MailScanner to be installed.  If that
>doesn't solve it, it'll be back to Julian with my testing report for him
>to comment.
>
>If the reports don't restart when phishing goes back on then I don't
>where I'll be.
>
>Gary
>
>Fractal IT Dept. wrote:
>
>
>>We've experienced a few blank "zen mails" as well. In one case I saw
>>Outlook 2003 pop up it's little summary in the bottom-right that DID
>>have part of the message body, but then the message was blank; this
>>was Outlook 2000 sending to Outlook 2003. In other cases, we've had
>>people complain that HTML messages from Outlook Express arrived at
>>another Outlook Express but weer blank.
>>
>>I have no idea what the cause might be.
>>
>>------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------ To
>>unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words: 'leave
>>mailscanner' in the body of the email. Before posting, read the MAQ
>>(http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and the archives
>>(http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).
>>
>>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>>
>>
>
>------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
>To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
>'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
>Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
>the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).
>
>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>
>
>

--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!