Message body lost when zip file quarantined

[Julian Field]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Let me try this again.
>
> On June 30, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> MailScanner-4.70.7-1
>>
>> I'm sorry if this is a well known issue or a FAQ. I tried googling the
>> list archives and didn't see anything that seemed relevant.
>>
>> The issue is this:
>>
>> MailScanner is scanning a message with an attached .zip archive which
>> contains a number of .bat and .bat.bak files, other files and even
>> another zip archive which contains a single .bat file.
>>
>> Mailscanner detects all the .bat and .bat.bak files in the zip files,
>> sends a notice appropriately, and delivers the message with the
>> attachment removed. All well and good. The problems are:
>>
>> 1) not only the original .zip is quarantined, but so also are the
>> individual .bat, .bat.bak and .zip files extracted from the original
>> .zip (other files in the .zip with OK names are not). This is not a
>> major issue, but makes looking in the quarantine difficult as one
>> doesn't know what files were separately attached and what files were
>> just in the .zip.
>>
>> 2) The more serious issue is the original message body is also removed
>> from the delivered message, and it is not stored anywhere.
>
>
> So, is there some misconfiguration on my part that is causing the loss 
> of the message body, or is this and the redundant files in quarantine 
> the expected behavior?
>
Number 2 is the one that interests me. Please can you send me a concrete 
example, preferably lifted straight out of a sendmail queue.

Jules

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