Message never gets out of mqueue.in

[Richard Bollinger]

On 2/8/07, Richard Bollinger <rabollinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Bollinger <rabollinger at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 8, 2007 6:27 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Message never gets out of mqueue.in
> To: "Martin. Hepworth" <martinh at solidstatelogic.com>
> Cc: MAILSCANNER at jiscmail.ac.uk
>
>
> Not sure if you caught my reply.... any further thoughts based on my
> test results?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Bollinger <rabollinger at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 7, 2007 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Message never gets out of mqueue.in
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>
>
> On 2/7/07, Martin.Hepworth <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
> > Richard
> >
> > Bother I hate doing this..
> >
> >
> > When you upgraded did you force the locktype in MailScanner.conf. recent
> > MailScanner versions assume sendmail is 8.13+ and posix locktype rather
> > than older versions with assume sendmail is 8.12 or previous and flock
> > locktype.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> >
> We're running sendmail-8.13.8
> MailScanner.conf has this line in it:  Lock Type =
>
> Here's the output of the -debug run:
> /root at rb-ls1:/u/tmp/looping# /opt/bin/MailScanner -debug
> In Debugging mode, not forking...
> [28597] warn: FuzzyOcr: Cannot find executable for ocrad
> Ignore errors about failing to find EOCD signature
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 820
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 820
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 820
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 820
> format error: can't find EOCD signature
>  at /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner line 820
> read-open /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/28597/l17Bo8oL007167/LOS_pdf:
> No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/MIME/Body.pm
> line 435.
>
> My first guess would be that the problem may be related to foreign
> language attachment names and the TNEF decoders.... this email was
> from an partner in India.
>
> Thanks, Rich B

Working the bug further, I tried upgrading to the latest stable
MailScanner-4.58.9.  That didn't change anything, so I tried changing
TNEF processing to internal and it ran to completion... and I see the
problem.... maybe.

Using the external converter, it says the name of one of the
attachments is LOS_pdf1, and sure enough that is one of the files
broken out in the incoming folder before it does looking for LOS_pdf
(the name missing its last character).

read-open /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/12862/l17Bo8oL007167/LOS_pdf:
No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/MIME/Body.pm
line 435.
root at rb-ls1:~# ls /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/12862/l17Bo8oL007167
LOS_pdf1                 Untitled Attachment  msg-12862-2.txt
PBU Rev1 1 Feb,2007.xls  msg-12862-1.txt      msg-12862-3.txt

Using the internal converter, it runs to completion, calling that
attachment "LOS_pdf" (missing its last character).

Somewhere in the process, MailScanner is dropping the last byte of the
file name and thereby getting confused.  Looks like my temporary cure
is to use the internal TNEF converter.

Someone who groks perl better than I should be able to find the error now.

Thanks, Rich B