MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.45 released

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 1 21:44:51 IST 2005


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A problem with the internal TNEF decoder has come to light recently. For 
new installations, I have changed the TNEF Expander to the external one, 
to stop new users hitting this problem.

I have as yet been unable to get hold of a TNEF message that exhibits 
this problem, no-one has kept any. If you have one that you can put on a 
website for me to copy, that would be very helpful.

Ed Bruce wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I have just released the latest stable version of MailScanner 4.45.
>>
> Upgraded and a couple of hours later all hell breaks out. For some 
> reason internal TNEF seems broken. Using MailWatch I noticed the same 
> {SPAM?} message being sent over and over and over and over again to 
> the same user same subject. I would stop MS and then restart and the 
> first thing I notice is:
>
> Expanding TNEF archive at /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/... 
> repeating over and over every few seconds, more than are being sent or 
> received. I finally changed from:
>
> TNEF Expander = internal
>
> to
>
> TNEF Expander =  /usr/bin/tnef --maxsize=100000000
>
> restart MS and all is back to normal. Was there any change to the 
> internal TNEF???
>
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