Problem with MailScanner looping and cliaming spamassassin cache hits on every message

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Mon Dec 3 09:11:38 GMT 2007


Hi There,

I finally got round this....

I upgraded to the latest mailscanner, updated all the PERL libraries and 
everything and it works again  (phew...)

What concerns me is what broke it in the first place....

Thanks for the help!

Pete





Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 03/12/2007, Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org> wrote:
>   
>> HiThere,
>>
>> if I put Expand TNEF=no
>>
>> the mailscanner debug now fails with:
>>
>> Can't call method "head" on an undefined value at
>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 1621.
>>
>> P
>>     
> I don't think your version of MS had the Expand TNEF setting...?
> It's not the same as TNEF Expander (which should be either "internal",
> the full path to an external command... or empty).
>
> You might try look through the inbound queue to find the message that
> is blocking and move that aside.
> Then I'd recommend that you upgrade MailScanner (a lot has happened to
> the TNEF code, IIRC), and perhaps get the latest tnef command as well.
>
> While you're at it, check the "sanity" of your SA cache with the
> "analyze_SpamAssassin_cache" command... If that errors out, simply
> stop MS (if running), remove the cache database and restart MS.
>
> Cheers
>   


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