TNEF loops

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Tue Apr 10 20:43:23 IST 2007


I got him a couple of movies off his list, but they probably haven't 
made it there, yet. ;^)

Just a couple 'o days Julian..!

At 01:02 PM 4/10/2007, you wrote:

>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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>>Charset: ISO-8859-1
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>>=8kq9
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