Feedback on MailScanner 4.56.1-1 beta

[Jim Holland]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> > Jim Holland wrote:
> >
> >> You have very kindly included a new facility for providing separate 
> >> reports for messages and attachments which have been blocked or 
> >> quarantined due to user specified size restrictions.  I have done 
> >> some testing on both oversize messages and attachments, and am 
> >> pleased to report that it works exactly as intended for attachments, 
> >> giving a report such as:
> >>
> >>     MailScanner: Attachment is too large: 154303 bytes
> >>
> >> However in the case of oversize messages, the report is just:
> >>
> >>     MailScanner: Message is too large
> >>
> >> with no indication of the size of the message that has been 
> >> quarantined.  Would it be possible to include the size in that case 
> >> as well?  That would be very helpful for people who don't want to 
> >> unquarantine a message that is far too large for them to handle.
> >>   
> > I'll take a look and see. I can only think that there was some good 
> > reason why I couldn't do it.
> Edit /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepContent.pm and around line 
> 131 you need to change it to say
> 
>         MailScanner::Config::LanguageValue($message, 'toobig') . ": " 
> .                                            $message->{size} . " bytes\n";

Thanks.  That does the trick.

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service