MailScanner --lint doesn't check Eicar virus - OK here!

[Randal, Phil]

I guess the big question is whether Jules can put a fix in for
perl-MIME-Tools version 5.424  without breaking 5.420-compatibility.

Whether he should update his installer to use 5.424 is his call.

Sometimes you just have to take the pain of keeping things up to date
and dealing with the breakages.

We certainly will have to if we become dependent on the rpmforge repo.

Cheers,

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Michael
Mansour
Sent: 09 December 2007 01:38
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: MailScanner --lint doesn't check Eicar virus - OK here!

Hi Scott,

--- Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:

> on 12/6/2007 6:05 PM Michael Mansour spake the
> following:
> > Hi Phil,
> > 
> > --- "Randal, Phil" <prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> I've finally tracked this down:
> >>  
> >> yumming from the rpmforge repo had updated perl-MIME-Tools to 
> >> version 5.424.
> >>  
> >> Downgrading to 5.420 made things work:
> > 
> > I'm so glad you worked this one out. I also did
> the
> > downgrade and discovered that the "block of wmv
> files"
> > subject I'd sent through the list also was
> resolved
> > ie. blocking attachments was now working again.
> > 
> > What you, and anyone else using the
> perl-MIME-tools
> > update would have found is, that you weren't
> actually
> > blocking any attachments anymore, as for me this
> is
> > what had happened.
> > 
> > You see, the reason the Eicar virus test was
> failing
> > was because the MIME checking was broken with the perl-MIME-tools 
> > update.
> > 
> > I asked this question previously in the "block of
> wmv
> > files" subject in the mailing list,
> asking/commenting
> > that I couldn't be the only one experiencing this problem but others

> > either didn't test it or were oblivious to the fact that attachment 
> > checking was
> no
> > longer working for them.
> > 
> > With this trouble-shooting and resolution (and
> letting
> > us know about it here), you've hit at least 2
> birds
> > with the one stone.
> > 
> > Good work mate and thanks again.
> > 
> > Michael.
> Strange.. I have rpmforge enabled on a CentOS 5 box and 
> perl-MIME-tools is still at 5.420 here, and I know I have updated 
> because I was hit with the mailtools upgrade bug. Did this also affect

> CentOS 4 or do I need to be ready for another hit?

I can't speak for CentOS5 / SL5 / RHEL5 since I don't run MailScanner on
anything other than SL4 (CentOS4/RHEL4).

For the people running RHEL4-based derivatives, the above would hold
true.

Regards,

Michael.



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