TNEF corruption and crashes and massive problems after upgrading to 4.78.9

[Jules Field]

On 28/08/2009 04:44, Jonas Akrouh Larsen wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> I was glad to see that the processing db feature to prevent mails 
> which would crash mailscanner or one of its module was added in the 
> version from topic.
>
> However after having run this beta for about 2 weeks, I got massive 
> problems in contrast to the old version I ran before that (4.74.16-1)
>
> Before I used to get a problematic mails which would hold up the 
> queues maybe once every 6 months or so, while very annoying it did not 
> happen often at all.
>
> However since I upgraded, I get about 2-6 every day which are placed 
> in the processing queue.
>
> So on the up side the processing database is doing precisely what it 
> was made for, preventing MailScanner crashes from holding up queue’s, 
> as the problem mails are removed after X number of tries.
>
> The downside is of course that these mails are not delivery, and its 
> almost always ham mails, so it’s annoying for the users.
>
> It seems from my first look aty the problem that it seems to be the 
> tnef expanding part that fails. Now I’ve always used:
>
> Expand TNEF = yes
>
> Use TNEF Contents = replace
>
> TNEF Expander = internal
>
> Deliver Unparsable TNEF = no
>
> Which has worked well both in terms of not crashing and removing those 
> annoying winmail.dat files.
>
> Are these variable values the recommended values? What are everyone 
> else using?
>
I would try "TNEF Expander = external".

> And is anybody using the new beta with success on a faily active 
> system (like at least 1000 mails a day)
>
> My systems details are below:
>
> scanner0:/var/log# /opt/MailScanner/bin/MailScanner -V
>
> Running on
>
> Linux scanner0 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 01:52:30 UTC 2009 
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> This is Perl version 5.010000 (5.10.0)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.78.9
>
> Module versions are:
>
> 1.00 AnyDBM_File
>
> 1.30 Archive::Zip
>
> 0.23 bignum
>
> 1.08 Carp
>
> 2.012 Compress::Zlib
>
> 1.119 Convert::BinHex
>
> 0.17 Convert::TNEF
>
> 2.125 Data::Dumper
>
> 2.27 Date::Parse
>
> 1.01 DirHandle
>
> 1.06 Fcntl
>
> 2.76 File::Basename
>
> 2.11 File::Copy
>
> 2.01 FileHandle
>
> 2.07 File::Path
>
> 0.22 File::Temp
>
> 0.92 Filesys::Df
>
> 1.35 HTML::Entities
>
> 3.56 HTML::Parser
>
> 2.37 HTML::TokeParser
>
> 1.25 IO
>
> 1.14 IO::File
>
> 1.13 IO::Pipe
>
> 2.04 Mail::Header
>
> 1.89 Math::BigInt
>
> 0.22 Math::BigRat
>
> 3.08 MIME::Base64
>
> 5.427 MIME::Decoder
>
> 5.427 MIME::Decoder::UU
>
> 5.427 MIME::Head
>
> 5.427 MIME::Parser
>
> 3.08 MIME::QuotedPrint
>
> 5.427 MIME::Tools
>
> 0.13 Net::CIDR
>
> 1.25 Net::IP
>
> 0.18 OLE::Storage_Lite
>
> 1.04 Pod::Escapes
>
> 3.08 Pod::Simple
>
> 1.13 POSIX
>
> 1.21 Scalar::Util
>
> 1.80 Socket
>
> 2.21 Storable
>
> 1.4 Sys::Hostname::Long
>
> 0.26 Sys::Syslog
>
> 1.40 Test::Pod
>
> 0.92 Test::Simple
>
> 1.9719 Time::HiRes
>
> 1.02 Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
>
> 1.52 Archive::Tar
>
> 0.23 bignum
>
> 2.05 Business::ISBN
>
> 20081208 Business::ISBN::Data
>
> 1.15 Data::Dump
>
> 1.816_1 DB_File
>
> 1.25 DBD::SQLite
>
> 1.605 DBI
>
> 1.16 Digest
>
> 1.01 Digest::HMAC
>
> 2.39 Digest::MD5
>
> 2.11 Digest::SHA1
>
> 1.01 Encode::Detect
>
> 0.17015 Error
>
> 0.2603 ExtUtils::CBuilder
>
> 2.2002 ExtUtils::ParseXS
>
> 2.38 Getopt::Long
>
> 0.45 Inline
>
> 1.08 IO::String
>
> 1.10 IO::Zlib
>
> 2.27 IP::Country
>
> missing Mail::ClamAV
>
> 3.002005 Mail::SpamAssassin
>
> v2.006 Mail::SPF
>
> 1.999001 Mail::SPF::Query
>
> 0.340201 Module::Build
>
> 0.20 Net::CIDR::Lite
>
> 0.63 Net::DNS
>
> v0.003 Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
>
> 0.39 Net::LDAP
>
> 4.027 NetAddr::IP
>
> 1.94 Parse::RecDescent
>
> missing SAVI
>
> 3.17 Test::Harness
>
> 1.23 Test::Manifest
>
> 2.02 Text::Balanced
>
> 1.40 URI
>
> 0.77 version
>
> 0.70 YAML
>
> scanner0:/var/log#
>
> Hope somebody have some comments/sugestions.
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
>
> Jonas Akrouh Larsen
>
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Jules

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