Revised patch, was Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.45 released

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 5 11:58:53 IST 2005


On 2 Sep 2005, at 09:59, Julian Field wrote:
> On 1 Sep 2005, at 22:00, Julian Field wrote:
>> Ed Bruce wrote:
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>
> Please try the attached patch for TNEF.pm. There is a bug in the  
> directory permissions set by the Convert::TNEF module on its  
> temporary directory. It fails when it cannot find any files in the  
> TNEF archive when it is run as a user other than root. So Postfix  
> and Exim users may see this problem.

Attached is a revised edition of the patch. This should fix problems  
caused by the last patch.

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