Problem with MailScanner, postfix and corrupt mails

[Julian Field]

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Robert Waldner wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:55:45 GMT, Julian Field writes:
>
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>>>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
>
>
No I meant how big are they in practice? Grep your maillog for "New" and
send me a rough approximation of the figures in there.

>>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
>
>
>
Any difference in the behaviour of the two machines? Is the problem
exactly the same on both?

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Julian Field
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