4.39.3-1 bug - it is related to virus detection (more info & errors)

[Quentin Campbell]

Jason

There are now further problems. After restarting MailScanner 4.39.3-1 to
clear mqueue.in I noticed that the MailScanner processes were dying
immediately. Stopped MailScanner.

There were 10 jobs in mqueue.in so I set "Debug = yes" and started
MailScanner again. Saw the following error which had not occurred on
earlier Debug runs with 4.39.3-1:


[root at cheviot7 mqueue.in]# service MailScanner start
Starting MailScanner daemons:
         incoming sendmail:          outgoing sendmail:    [  OK  ]
         MailScanner:       In Debugging mode, not forking...
SA bayes lock is /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
Bayes lock is at /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
Can't call method "print" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Entity.pm line 1803.
                                                           [  OK  ]
[root at cheviot7 mqueue.in]#


Quentin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Quentin Campbell
>Sent: 23 February 2005 11:25
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug - it is related to virus detection
>
>Julian
>
>A further examination of the logs show that the error text "Cannot open
>message file , No such file or directory" is related to virus scanning
>by MailScanner. 
>
>It only occurs for a message in which either/both our AV products have
>detected a virus and MailScanner has flagged this in the logs. 
>
>Quentin
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>                           University of Newcastle,
>                           Newcastle upon Tyne,
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>its own."  
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: 23 February 2005 09:51
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?
>>
>>Do you have nested sendmail mqueue.in directories? i.e. mqueue.in/df,
>>mqueue.in/qf etc directories?
>>
>>Quentin Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>Have installed BETA 4.39.3-1 in place of a happily working 4.38.9-1
>>>system on a RH AS 3 system (called "cheviot7") running Sendmail and
>>>SpamAssassin.
>>>
>>>Simply did the install as usual then added the new MailScanner.conf
>>>lines to the previous MailScanner.conf file and changed the version
>>>number of course.
>>>
>>>After the installation of 4.39.3-1 I also applied Julian's 
>>latest patch
>>>(22/Feb) to Message.pm.
>>>
>>>System appeared to be running OK but in fact we immediatley started
>>>seeing the following messages in log:
>>>
>>>"Feb 22 14:47:43 cheviot7 MailScanner[18419]: Cannot open 
>>message file ,
>>>No such file or directory" and messages began to pile up in
>>>/var/spool/mqueue.in.
>>>
>>>This error message seems to originate from Message.pm. I see 
>it in the
>>>logs whether I am running the patched version of Message.pm or the
>>>unpatched version.
>>>
>>>Quentin
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>>>                           University of Newcastle,
>>>                           Newcastle upon Tyne,
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