MailScanner 4.77.3 fails to scan some messages

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Thu May 14 17:19:35 IST 2009


Julian Field wrote:
>
>On 11/05/2009 23:32, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>    
>>> Now I see the above analysis is probably wrong. I just received another
>>> unscanned message. Headers are attached as scanned2.txt and
>>> unscanned2.txt. Here again, I was able to get the message to be
>>> scanned by removing a Received: header, but the header I removed
>>> doesn't have any 'special' IP address in it.
>>>      
>>
>> Further information. I replaced Postfix.pm with the one from 4.76.24
>> and the problem is gone.
>>    
>Thanks for that info, it greatly helped. Fixed in 4.77.4 which I have 
>just released.


The fix in 4.77.4 goes too far. With that fix, my scan messages rules
like

# localhost
From: 127.0.0.1 no
# sbh16.songbird.com
From: 72.52.113.16 no

are not effective, and all messages are scanned.

Note I have

Read IP Address From Received Header = no

in MailScanner.conf


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