winmail.dat problem in version 4.84.5

[Alex Neuman]

Splitting mail is something you have to *do things* for it to happen. If
you undo the changes you made to split the e-mails (how to do this depends
on which MTA you're using, I'm assuming sendmail from the logs), you should
be able to avoid the problem.

Do you know why splitting e-mails to multiple recipients was needed in the
first place? Did whoever installed this prior to you taking over document
it? The procedure is detailed here:

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:sendmail:how_to:split_mails_per_recipient

You can also try changing which method you use to process winmail.dat
files, or not to process them at all. The risk is minimal. Check your
mailscanner.conf settings, there is more information in the comments.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Berndt, Achim <aberndt at studio-hamburg.de>wrote:

>  Hello,****
>
> ** **
>
> we made last week an update of our mail-gateways. We have now the
> OS-Version openSUSE12.2 and the****
>
> MailScanner-Version 4.84.5 (from 4.81.4). Unfortunately there is now a
> problem with scanning of winmail.dat****
>
> attachments?! If there is a mail with 2 recipients and a winmail.dat
> attachment, MailScanner split the mail****
>
> and try to scan it two times. The first scan is successfull, but the
> second one not?! Do you have an explanation****
>
> for the problem?****
>
> ** **
>
> Mail-Log:****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 sendmail-in[32743]: r14FCB3G032743: from=<alex at bdo.de>,
> size=274800, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
> 86D1E45AA30DB1478EB30D571D10BC7AAFA19310EE at HH0EX001.bdocorp.de>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mx01.bdo.de [194.76.208.111]****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 sendmail-in[32743]: r14FCB3G032743: to=<
> peter at studio-hamburg.de>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=304800,
> stat=queued****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 MailScanner[26355]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> 275339 bytes****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 MailScanner[26355]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 MailScanner[26355]: Message r14FCB3G032743 from
> 194.76.208.111 (alex at bdo.de) to studio-hamburg.de is too big for spam
> checks (275339 > 200000 bytes)****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 MailScanner[26355]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages*
> ***
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 MailScanner[26355]: Deleted 1 messages from
> processing-database****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 sendmail-in[32743]: r14FCB3H032743: from=<alex at bdo.de>,
> size=282469, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<
> 86D1E45AA30DB1478EB30D571D10BC7AAFA19310EE at HH0EX001.bdocorp.de>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mx01.bdo.de [194.76.208.111]****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:14 mxi2 sendmail-in[32743]: r14FCB3H032743: to=<
> waller at studio-hamburg.de>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=312469,
> stat=queued****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> 283011 bytes****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: Expanding TNEF archive at
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/26300/r14FCB3H032743/winmail.dat****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: Trying to unpack nwinmail.dat in
> message r14FCB3H032743, could not create subdirectory
> r14FCB3H032743//tnefgKmhWJ, failed to unpack TNEF message****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: Corrupt TNEF winmail.dat that
> cannot be analysed in message r14FCB3H032743****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: Message r14FCB3H032743 from
> 194.76.208.111 (alex at bdo.de) to studio-hamburg.de is too big for spam
> checks (283011 > 200000 bytes)****
>
> Feb  4 16:12:15 mxi2 MailScanner[26300]: Cleaned: Delivered 1 cleaned
> messages****
>
> ** **
>
> Regards****
>
> Achim****
>
> ** **
>
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