clamd and tnef error?

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 15:32:06 IST 2010


yeah  some sites need internal and others external expander, seems totally
random.

But as Steve says MIME/html email is the way to go then we get rid of the
silly winmail.dat anyway ;-)

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 14 September 2010 14:45, Steve Freegard <steve.freegard at fsl.com> wrote:

> On 14/09/10 14:13, Paul wrote:
>
>  I've switched to the internal tnef expander and there are no errors.
>>
>
> Small word of warning on the internal expander; Convert-TNEF hasn't been
> updated in a very long time and I recently had a number of issues on
> multiple sites where it was causing MailScanner to segfault on messages
> generated by recent versions of Exchange.  This was causing MailScanner to
> quarantine loads of messages as 'attempted to kill MailScanner' and required
> a bit of cleanup to correct.
>
> That said - I also had issues with the external expander a long time ago
> which is why I switched to the internal as the preferred method.  But the
> external expander is much more up-to-date and I doubt if these problems are
> still present.
>
> These days 'Expand TNEF = no' is my preferred method and get the Exchange
> server to send messages in MIME format instead of working around bad
> defaults on the Exchange side.
>
> Regards,
> Steve.
>
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