TNEF loops

[chris at bluecobras.com]

Quoting Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

Uh, Julian, aren't you supposed to be watching alot of West Wing! :)

Chris

> 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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