TNEF Expander Maxsize not working! (80 meg emails)

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Feb 3 14:47:36 GMT 2006


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Mount your /tmp using tmpfs, then it should be okay.

On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:30, test wrote:

> Even with TNEF Expander set to a max size of 10 megs, any file over  
> 80+ megs will cause MailScanner to 'crash', the child process lines  
> read 'expanding attachments' and then that process turns into a !   
> Goes into a never ending cycle until I perform a MV of the super  
> large email from mqueue.in to mqueue to bypass the Mailscanner  
> check.   Any ideas?  This happens very often and I can't understand  
> why its not accepting the --maxsize setting.  My /tmp/ is only 100  
> megs (ram) and it can't handle the super large emails.
>
> MailScanner 4.50.15-1/Redhat Fedora Core 2/SA 3.1.0
>
> Mailscanner.conf
>
> TNEF Expander = /usr/bin/tnef --maxsize=10000000
>
>
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