MailScanner 4.77.1-2 Child silently dies

[Mark Sapiro]

Julian Field wrote:

>Please do a MailScanner --debug and tell me what it shows you.
>


[root at sbh16 ~]# MailScanner --debug
In Debugging mode, not forking...
Trying to setlogsock(unix)
Building a message batch to scan...
Have a batch of 1 message.
max message size is '200k continue 200k'
Undefined subroutine &MailScanner::Unzip::UnpackZipMembers called at
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 2461.
[root at sbh16 ~]# cd /etc/MailScanner/
[root at sbh16 MailScanner]#


Note that /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Unzip.pm exists and does
define sub UnpackZipMembers


>On 11/05/2009 19:20, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> I tried upgrading MailScanner 4.76.24-3 to 4.77.1-2. This resulted in
>> the child process silently dying on every message, even simple
>> text/plain messages.
>>
>> The child starts a batch
>>
>> May 11 09:35:22 sbh16 MailScanner[20257]: New Batch: Scanning 1
>> messages, 2984 bytes
>>
>> and the next MailScanner log message is a new child starting
>>
>> May 11 09:35:24 sbh16 MailScanner[20303]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>> Scanner version 4.77.1 starting...
>>
>> Eventually, on restart we see for example
>>
>> May 11 10:07:42 sbh16 MailScanner[21289]: Making attempt 6 at
>> processing message 1FFC16900C6.A2B03
>>
>> and on the next restart
>>
>> May 11 10:07:49 sbh16 MailScanner[21318]: Warning: skipping message
>> 1FFC16900C6.A2B03 as it has been attempted too many times
>> May 11 10:07:49 sbh16 MailScanner[21318]: Quarantined message
>> 1FFC16900C6.A2B03 as it caused MailScanner to crash several times
>> May 11 10:07:49 sbh16 MailScanner[21318]: Saved entire message to
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20090511/1FFC16900C6.A2B03
>>
>> MTA is Postfix.
>>
>>    
>
>Jules

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