Problem with MailScanner, postfix and corrupt mails

[Robert Waldner]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:55:45 GMT, Julian Field writes:
>>On two boxen, I constantly have mails which are, apparingly, damaged by
>> MailScanner so that postfix, after picking them up again, quarantines
>> them into its "corrupt"-folder.

>I have seen this once before on a client's system. I have never been
>able to reliably reproduce the problem, which makes it pretty much
>impossible to fix. Even exactly the same message would behave properly
>most of the time, but occasionally not.
>
>How big are your mail batches (as picked up by MailScanner)?

Is this what you mean?

Max Unscanned Messages Per Scan = 30
Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 30

>What version of MailScanner are you running? ("MailScanner -v" please)

troi:~# MailScanner -v
Running on
Linux troi 2.4.19 #1 SMP Wed Nov 27 10:07:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown
This is Perl version 5.008004 (5.8.4)

This is MailScanner version 4.38.10
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.14    Archive::Zip
1.02    Carp
1.119   Convert::BinHex
1.00    DirHandle
1.05    Fcntl
2.72    File::Basename
2.07    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.06    File::Path
0.14    File::Temp
1.29    HTML::Entities
3.45    HTML::Parser
2.30    HTML::TokeParser
1.21    IO
1.10    IO::File
1.123   IO::Pipe
3.04    MIME::Base64
5.417   MIME::Decoder
5.417   MIME::Decoder::UU
5.417   MIME::Head
5.417   MIME::Parser
3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
5.417   MIME::Tools
0.09    Net::CIDR
1.08    POSIX
1.77    Socket
0.05    Sys::Syslog
1.02    Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
1.808   DB_File
1.06    Digest
1.01    Digest::HMAC
2.33    Digest::MD5
2.10    Digest::SHA1
missing Inline
missing Mail::ClamAV
2.64    Mail::SpamAssassin
missing Mail::SPF::Query
missing Net::CIDR::Lite
0.19    Net::DNS
missing Net::LDAP
missing Parse::RecDescent
missing SAVI
missing Sys::Hostname::Long
2.40    Test::Harness
0.47    Test::Simple
1.95    Text::Balanced
1.30    URI

guinan:~# MailScanner -v
Running on
Linux guinan 2.4.19 #1 SMP Wed Nov 27 10:07:22 CET 2002 i686 GNU/Linux
This is Perl version 5.008004 (5.8.4)

This is MailScanner version 4.35.2
Module versions are:
1.00    AnyDBM_File
1.14    Archive::Zip
1.02    Carp
1.119   Convert::BinHex
1.00    DirHandle
1.05    Fcntl
2.72    File::Basename
2.07    File::Copy
2.01    FileHandle
1.06    File::Path
0.14    File::Temp
1.27    HTML::Entities
3.36    HTML::Parser
2.28    HTML::TokeParser
1.21    IO
1.10    IO::File
1.123   IO::Pipe
3.04    MIME::Base64
5.415   MIME::Decoder
5.415   MIME::Decoder::UU
5.415   MIME::Head
5.415   MIME::Parser
3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
5.415   MIME::Tools
0.10    Net::CIDR
1.08    POSIX
1.77    Socket
0.05    Sys::Syslog
1.02    Time::localtime

Optional module versions are:
1.808   DB_File
1.06    Digest
1.01    Digest::HMAC
2.33    Digest::MD5
2.10    Digest::SHA1
missing Inline
missing Mail::ClamAV
2.64    Mail::SpamAssassin
missing Mail::SPF::Query
missing Net::CIDR::Lite
0.48    Net::DNS
missing Net::LDAP
missing Parse::RecDescent
missing SAVI
missing Sys::Hostname::Long
2.40    Test::Harness
0.47    Test::Simple
1.95    Text::Balanced
1.30    URI

cheers,
&rw
--
-- Prof:    So the American government went to IBM to come up with
--          a data encryption standard and they came up with ...
-- Student: EBCDIC!



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