4.39.3-1 bug or is it me - what MailScanner "debug" shows

[Quentin Campbell]

Julian

Please ignore my last message. The one hard piece of information I have
is from when I run 4.39.3-1 in "debug" mode. It is repeatable.

It picks up the first message in "mqueue.in" which happens to be both
spam and carrying a virus. It writes out quite a bit of the normal
MailScanner logging information to syslog then stops after issuing the
following message to console:

Can't call method "print" on an undefined value at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Entity.pm line 1803.

At that point in Entity.pm it appears to be trying to print the body of
a message to "OUTSTREAM" [?] for a MIME 'multipart' type.

I cannot tell if this is the cause of the problem or a consequence of
it!

Quentin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Quentin Campbell
>Sent: 24 February 2005 10:29
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?
>
>Julian
>
>In the case of spam the usual action is taken, namely to deliver the
>tagged message as an attachment. That is happening OK and for this to
>work the ~reports/en/inline.spam.warning.txt file must be readable. It
>clearly is. 
>
>However it appears that after the message is delivered I get a
>"MailScanner child dying of old age" message logged.
>
>The problem with the "Cannot open message file , No such file or
>directory" error is only apparent when a virus is detected. It seems
>that MS goes as far as sending the virus notification to the 
>"Notices To
>=" address but then the failure occurs. 
>
>Looking at MessageBatch.pm it is as if there is a failure return from
>the attempt to post the notice but the failure message cannot be logged
>and execution fails at that point.
>
>Looking at the code excerpt from MessageBatch.pm below I note that I am
>not seeing in the logs the "Could not notify postmaster from ..." text
>that I should get if the attempt to post fails and returns an error
>number in $!. 
>
>Nor am I seeing the "Notices: Warned about <number> messages ...". I
>would expect to see immediately after the posting of the notice.
>
>The behaviours in the case of both spam delivery and when a 
>virus notice
>is delivered to the "Notices To =" address suggests that MS is 
>getting a
>failure from an attempt to post a message and the code that 
>handles that
>posting is not returning to the caller. 
>
>From Message.Batch.pm 
>
> ...
> while(($postie,$notice) = each %notices) {
>    $email = $headers{$postie} . "\n" .
>      #MailScanner::Config::LanguageValue($message, 'noticeheading') .
>":\n" .
>      #$notices{$postie} . "\n" . $signatures{$postie} . "\n";
>      MailScanner::Config::LanguageValue($message, 'noticeprefix') . ":
>" .
>      $reasons . "\n" . $notices{$postie} . "\n" . $signatures{$postie}
>. "\n";
>
>    $global::MS->{mta}->SendMessageString(undef, $email, $postie) or
>      MailScanner::Log::WarnLog("Could not notify postmaster from
>$postie, %s",
>                                $!);
>  }
>
>  MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Notices: Warned about %d messages",
>$counter)
>    if $counter;
>}
>
>
>
>Quentin 
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>                           University of Newcastle,
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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 16:35
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?
>>
>>In other words neither of us have the faintest clue as to 
>what could be
>>going wrong here.
>>:-(
>>
>>Quentin Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>>Sent: 23 February 2005 14:21
>>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>>Subject: Re: 4.39.3-1 bug or is it me?
>>>>
>>>>Can you compare the configs. It is apparently failing to get
>>>>the message filenames altogether. No-one else has seen this 
>>problem :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Julian
>>>
>>>I have carefully checked lists of files from ~reports/en and ~/rules
>>>against the pre-4.39.3-1 lists of files from those same 
>>sub-directories.
>>>They are all accounted for and have the same names - this was checked
>>>with "diff" run against sorted lists of files.
>>>
>>>I have also used "diff" to compare the 4.39.3-1 MailScanner.conf file
>>>against the previous version (4.38.9-1). They are the same except for
>>>the additional lines you have added since 4.38.9-1 and the different
>>>Version Number.
>>>
>>>Quentin
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>>
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