Quarantined message 13A82BF8DD.AF8F7 as it caused MailScanner to crash several times

[Martin Hepworth]

Add the -U flag will sort out some remaining perl taint issues u are seeing

Time to get Jules a pressie I think to remind him of the fixes ms needs
recently

Martin

On Monday, 2 January 2012, Bjørn T Johansen <btj at havleik.no> wrote:
> Sounds like my problem, I'll try that.... Thx... :)
>
> btw, what does the -U do?
>
> also, I believe I upgraded a lot of perl packages when upgrading to
CentOS 6.2 before this started, is this the cause of my problems? And if
so, is
> there a fix I can easily do?
>
>
> BTJ
>
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:48:45 +0530
> Supun Rathnayake <supunr at lankacom.net> wrote:
>
>> This happened to me as well with the recent Ubuntu 10.04 mailscanner
updates, but removing of the corrupt ( so called ) email did not solve the
problem
>> and finally adding -U flag to the main MailScanner file interpreter as
follows did solve the problem.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/share/MailScanner/ -U
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Supun.
>>
>>
>> On 01/02/2012 09:15 PM, Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> > On Jan 2, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yes, I have done that, several times... But it just keeps coming
back..... :-(
>> >>
>> >> BTJ
>> > 1. Shut down MailScanner
>> > 2. Remove the problem message from the incoming hold directory
>> > 3. Remove the processing db
>> > 4. Restart Mailscanner
>> >
>> > Steve
>> > ---
>> > Steve Swaney
>> > steve at fsl.com
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:56:15 +0000
>> >> Martin Hepworth<maxsec at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> There was something some thing similar on this lost a few days ago,
just
>> >>> deleting the processing.db file sorted the issue
>> >>>
>> >>> Martin
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sunday, 1 January 2012, Bjørn T Johansen<btj at havleik.no>  wrote:
>> >>>> I am getting these in the log every day, at the moment:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Warning: skipping message 13A82BF8DD.AF8F7 as it has been attempted
too
>> >>> many times
>> >>>> Quarantined message 13A82BF8DD.AF8F7 as it caused MailScanner to
crash
>> >>> several times
>> >>>> MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.84.3 starting...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> And this is a big problem because my mailsrv then stops to deliver
any
>> >>> mail; the mail is just kept in the hold directory under postfix..
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What is causing this? And is there a way to ignore this error and
still
>> >>> deliver the rest of the mail?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Regards,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> BTJ
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>>
>> >>>
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>> >>>> Bjørn T Johansen
>> >>>>
>> >>>> btj at havleik.no
>> >>>>
>> >>>
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>> >>>> Someone wrote:
>> >>>> "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear
strange
>> >>> Satanic messages"
>> >>>> To which someone replied:
>> >>>> "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs
Windows"
>> >>>>
>> >>>
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> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
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Martin Hepworth
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