Problem with MailScanner, postfix and corrupt mails

[Julian Field]

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Can you give us more details on the Cyrus problem you had? Would be
worth adding this to the FAQ to help other people.

Dean Jones wrote:

> Any more updates on this experiment with perl 5.6?
>
> On my Solaris, postfix, perl 5.8.4, mailscanner system i managed to find
> an error with file permissions on a cyrus library that was causing some
> mailscanner grief very infrequently
> since fixing the file perms i have yet to have a corrupt mail.
>
> so it is looking like pilot error at this point :)
>
> Robert Waldner wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:46:19 +0100, Robert Waldner writes:
>>
>>> If I don't hear about someone having this problem with 5.6, I'll start
>>> rebuilding a test-box with that tomorrow.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've built a box with perl 5.6 now, and it's delivering mail since
>>  yesterday. This is in a pool with 2 other (perl 5.8) machines which
>>  do exhibit the problem with corrupt mails.
>>
>> The 5.8 boxen have each had 2 resp. 3 mails "corrupt" in the last 24
>>  hours, the 5.6 one had none.
>>
>> To make matters a bit more interesting, I couldn't get the same MS on
>>  the 5.6 as on the 5.8 machines, eg the perl 5.6 machine now runs:
>>
>> ii  libcompress-zl 1.16-1         Perl module for creation and
>> manipulation of
>> ii  libconvert-tne 0.16-2         Perl module to read TNEF files
>> ii  libmailtools-p 1.44-1woody2   Manipulate email in perl programs
>> ii  libmime-perl   5.411-3        Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant
>> messages (M
>> ii  libnet-perl    1.09.01-1      Implementation of Internet
>> protocols for Per
>> ii  libnet-server- 0.87-3         An extensible, general perl server
>> engine
>> ii  libtime-hires- 1.20-4         High-resolution time manipulation
>> in perl
>> ii  libtimedate-pe 1.11-1         Time and date functions for perl.
>> ii  liburi-perl    1.30-1         Manipulates and accesses URI strings
>> ii  libwww-perl    5.64-1         WWW client/server library for Perl
>> ii  mailscanner    4.30.3-1       An email virus scanner and spam tagger
>> ii  perl           5.6.1-8.8      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
>> and Report
>> ii  perl-base      5.6.1-8.8      The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish
>> Lister.
>> ii  perl-modules   5.6.1-8.8      Core Perl modules.
>>
>> (Sorry, "MailScanner -v" doesn't work).
>>
>> I'll leave it running until next week, but this sure looks like a Perl
>>  bug to me.
>>
>> cheers,
>> &rw
>
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