Postfix + mailscanner corrupts messages, mailscanner stopping

John Wilcock john at TRADOC.FR
Thu Jul 28 11:49:12 IST 2005


    [ 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. ]

Richard Haakma wrote:
> I have searched the mailing list archive and found previous reports
> of a similar nature.  I have also found a reference in the
> CHANGELOG which may refer to this problem in the latest BETA
> release.  Is the fixes for the BETA release likely to fix
> this problem?

Yes - an improved fix for this was in 4.44.1. As Julian explained to me 
off-list, what basically happens is if MailScanner sees a postfix file 
without an end-of-message record it drops the message from the batch and 
lets the next MailScanner pick it up when it comes along.

John.

-- 
-- Over 2500 webcams from ski resorts around the world - www.snoweye.com
-- Translate your technical documents and web pages    - www.tradoc.fr

------------------------ 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 Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!



More information about the MailScanner mailing list