winmail.dat problem all of a sudden

[Jeremy McSpadden]

I've just disabled tnef all together. The likely hood of winmail.dat being anything is slim. Just my 2 cents


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Jeremy McSpadden

On Oct 8, 2011, at 7:47 PM, "Randal, Phil" <prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk<mailto:prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk>> wrote:

The internal expander fails with some attachments resulting in “message tried to kill MailScanner” problems.

Not much of a fix.

And, as has been pointed out before, we’re not in control of the outside world, so all exhortations on this list to abandon MS RTF emails are not going to fix anything.

Cheers,

Phil

From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: 08 October 2011 17:40
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: winmail.dat problem all of a sudden

tried the internal expander instead

winmail.dt should be killed off now !
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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

On 8 October 2011 14:58, Michael Masse <mrm at medicine.wisc.edu<mailto:mrm at medicine.wisc.edu>> wrote:
Running MS 4.84.3 on latest Centos 5.   All of sudden I'm getting a bunch of incoming messages being quarantined due to: "Could not parse Outlook Rich Text attachment"    The TNEF setting for unparable TNEF is set to deliver, yet it is not doing so.    This is a new problem that just started within the last two weeks.   One oddity I'm noticing is that in the quarantine I can usually see the offending attachment sitting there extracted next to the df and qf files.    In all of these winmail.dat cases, the winmail.dat is not sitting there next to the df and qf files so I can't even manually run them against the tnef extractor to see if it's truly a problem with tnef not being able to extract the files, or if it's a problem with MailScanner not being to extract the attachment from the email.  The fact that there is no winmail.dat attachment in the quarantine leads me to believe the latter.   Any help would be greatly appreciated.   The following are what I believe are my relevant MailScanner.conf config lines that have to do with TNEF:

Expand TNEF = yes
Use TNEF Contents = replace
Deliver Unparsable TNEF = yes
TNEF Expander = /usr/bin/tnef --maxsize=100000000
TNEF Timeout = 120
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