Problem with MailScanner, postfix and corrupt mails

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 16 08:52:36 GMT 2005


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Thanks for the offer, but I've got plenty of machines which don't show
the problem :-)
You are running the same configuration as my new test server, and I
can't reproduce it either.

Thanks anyway.

Pete Russell wrote:

> HI Jules, am using POstfix 2.1.5 on rhel4 - no problems with postfix
> whatsoever. Does it help you to have access to my 3 machines (and soon
> to be 4) that are running this version to inspect/compare etc?
>
> PLease let me know, would love to help in anyway i can - just not sure
> if i can :)
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> Robert Waldner wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:46 GMT, Julian Field writes:
>>
>>> There is only 1 statement in the code that print the "PreDataString"
>>> which is where this text is put. After writing it (once) it forks off a
>>> pipe to print the message body, then prints the "PostDataString". To
>>> get
>>> 2 copies of the PreDataString, something somewhere must duplicate it in
>>> the buffers.
>>
>>
>> <patch>
>>
>>> So there are just those 2 "+"-marked lines to add.
>>> If this doesn't fix it, then it really is beyond my control. I'm
>>> forcing
>>> it to flush the buffers absolutely everywhere, none of this should be
>>> needed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks. I'll apply the patch as soon as I get to work.
>>
>> cheers,
>> &rw
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>>
>>
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