Problem with "Use TNEF Contents" ?

[Julian Field]

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Are the TNEF attachments called exactly "winmail.dat"?
I didn't see this during testing.
Is anyone else seeing this too?

Michael H. Martel wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I love the new version. :)  However, I'm seeing an oddity.  On 
> messages that contain winmail.dat attachments, the contents appear to 
> be added to the message, even though the setting in the config file is 
> replace.
>
> Am I reading this wrong ?  Replace indicates that it should remove the 
> winmail.dat.
>
> I've included the section of my .conf file and the output of 
> MailScanner --lint and MailScanner -v
>
> Thanks!
>
> # Expand TNEF attachments using an external program (or a Perl module)?
> # This should be "yes" unless the scanner you are using (Sophos, 
> McAfee) has
> # the facility built-in. However, if you set it to "no", then the 
> filenames
> # within the TNEF attachment will not be checked against the filename 
> rules.
> Expand TNEF = yes
>
> # When the TNEF (winmail.dat) attachments are expanded, should the
> # attachments contained in there be added to the list of attachments in
> # the message?
> # If you set this to "add" or "replace" then recipients of messages sent
> # in "Outlook Rich Text Format" (TNEF) will be able to read the 
> attachments
> # if they are not using Microsoft Outlook.
> #
> # no      => Leave winmail.dat TNEF attachments alone.
> # add     => Add the contents of winmail.dat as extra attachments, but 
> also
> #            still include the winmail.dat file itself. This will 
> result in
> #            TNEF messages being doubled in size.
> # replace => Replace the winmail.dat TNEF attachment with the files it
> #            contains, and delete the original winmail.dat file itself.
> #            This means the message stays the same size, but is usable by
> #            non-Outlook recipients.
> #
> # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> #Use TNEF Contents = replace
> Use TNEF Contents = replace
>
>
>
> [root at hemlock etc]# /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner --lint
> Read 710 hostnames from the phishing whitelist
> Config: calling custom init function MailWatchLogging
> Cannot write pid file , No such file or directory at 
> /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 1238
> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> Using SpamAssassin results cache
> Connected to SpamAssassin cache database
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
>
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamav mcafee bitdefender f-prot"
> Found these virus scanners installed: bitdefender, f-prot, clamav, mcafee
> [root at hemlock etc]# /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux hemlock.vsc.edu 2.4.20-28.7smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 11:18:31 EST 
> 2003 i686 unknown
> This is Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
> This is Perl version 5.008006 (5.8.6)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.51.4
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.16    Archive::Zip
> 1.03    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.16    File::Temp
> 1.32    HTML::Entities
> 3.48    HTML::Parser
> 2.35    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.21    IO
> 1.10    IO::File
> 1.123   IO::Pipe
> 1.71    Mail::Header
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.419   MIME::Decoder
> 5.419   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.419   MIME::Head
> 5.419   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.419   MIME::Tools
> 0.11    Net::CIDR
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.77    Socket
> 0.05    Sys::Syslog
> 1.86    Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 1.811   DB_File
> 1.11    DBD::SQLite
> 1.50    DBI
> 1.08    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.36    Digest::MD5
> 2.10    Digest::SHA1
> 0.44    Inline
> missing Mail::ClamAV
> 3.001000        Mail::SpamAssassin
> 1.997   Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.18    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.48    Net::DNS
> 0.32    Net::LDAP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 1.2     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 2.42    Test::Harness
> 0.47    Test::Simple
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
>
>
>
> Michael
>
> -- 
>
>  --------------------------------o---------------------------------
>   Michael H. Martel              | Systems Administrator
>   michael.martel at vsc.edu         | Vermont State Colleges
>   http://www.vsc.edu/~michael    | PH:802-241-2544 FX:802-241-3363
>
>

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