MailScanner Digest, Vol 52, Issue 24

[Bruce R. Littlefield]

On 04/23/2010 03:44 AM, mailscanner-request at lists.mailscanner.info wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:12:12 +0100
> From: Julian Field<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Dangerous content detection with "file" command
> To: MailScanner discussion<mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
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> On 21/04/2010 15:51, Bruce R. Littlefield wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>  The diffs for SweepOther.pm are as follows:
>>> >>
>>> >>  410c410
>>> >>  <          $FileTypes{$1}{$2} = $3 if /^([^\/]+)\/([^:]+):\s*(.*)$/;
>>> >>  ---
>>>> >>>           $FileTypes{$1}{$2} = $3 if /^([^\/]+)\/([^:]+):\s*([^,]*),/;
>>> >>
>> >  Did this ever get addressed? I checked the latest Beta and
>> >  SweepOther.pm still has the earlier code. I ran into the same problem
>> >  on a Fedora 11 server running MailScanner 4.79.11-1 RPM with sendmail,
>> >  spamassassin, and clamd. I found this change to be quite beneficial.
>> >  Is it in the queue?
> That patch won't work if there is*not*  a comma in the output of the
> "file" command.
> What I would recommend you try instead is this:
> $FileTypes{$1}{$2} = $3 if /^([^\/]+)\/([^:]+):\s*([^,]*)/;
>
> Please try that and get back to me to let me know if it works.
> For now, please email me atmailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk  rather than post
> to the list.
> If my suggested fix works, I'll release a new beta containing it.
>
> Jules
>

Jules:

The new code worked correctly on the test cases I had here. It looks 
like it is just the ticket. Thanks.

-Bruce

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