TNEF loops

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 11:23 am, Julian Field wrote:
> You might also want to make sure you have the latest TNEF program, in
> case your one is an older more buggy release. It's on sourceforge.net.
> MailScanner ships with the latest version available at the time of release.
>
> David Vosburgh wrote:
> > Sujith Emmanuel wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >>     I am seeing TNEF loops in my mail gateway today,
> >>
> >> [root at mailscan mqueue]# rm -rf dfl39LTsWf020664
> >> [root at mailscan mqueue]# tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep l39LTsWf020664
> >> Apr 10 17:59:09 mailscan MailScanner[4473]: Message l39LTsWf020664 has
> >> had TNEF winmail.dat removed
> >> Apr 10 17:59:11 mailscan MailScanner[4809]: SpamAssassin cache hit for
> >> message l39LTsWf020664
> >> Apr 10 17:59:11 mailscan MailScanner[4809]: Expanding TNEF archive at
> >> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/4809/l39LTsWf020664/winmail.dat
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Does anyone have any clues on what could be the problem?
> >>
> >> Thanks and Regards
> >> Sujith Emmanuel
> >
> > I ran into the same problem a few times when using the TNEF expander
> > program.  I posted essentially the same question as you, and there was
> > a consensus to switch to the internal expander.  After making the
> > switch,   I haven't noticed the problem again.
> >
> > In my MailScanner.conf, I now have the following:
> >
> > TNEF Expander  = internal
> > #TNEF Expander = /usr/bin/tnef --maxsize=100000000
>
> Jules
>
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OT, I know, but uh, Jules, aren't you supposed to be taking it easy (or is 
this your idea of r 'n' r?).

Dimitri

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