Problem with MailScanner, postfix and corrupt mails

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 9 18:10:09 GMT 2005


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Robert Waldner wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:04:06 +0100, Robert Waldner writes:
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>>On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:46:50 GMT, Julian Field writes:
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>>>In PFDiskStore.pm, around line 271, there is a chunk of code that looks
>>>like this:
>>>
>>>
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>>>Let me know if this makes any difference. I am pretty sure it is a perl
>>>problem, as what is happening is that a variable called $predata is
>>>being written twice, regardless of the fact that there is only one
>>>print($predata) call.
>>>
>>>
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>>I'll know in a couple days and will report.
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>
>After a day of calm, there are now 2 new corrupt messages, the
> "structure" is exactly the same as before.
>
>Any more ideas for that?
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>
Bother :-(
This is totally unreproduceable. Can you send me one of the corrups
messages, I want to check all the checksums and pointers in the message
structure to see if I can glean anything from it.

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