TNEF external expander vs internal

[Peter Nitschke]

Hi Dave,

I too am frustrated that after all these years the TNEF issue still isn't
reliably resolved.

Unfortunately I lack the skills to make a useful contribution to the
problem.

Peter



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On 20/03/2013 at 1:42 PM David Hill wrote:

>Hi,
>
>                Here is a patch for the bug with 4.84.5-3 !
>
>
>--- TNEF.pm.broken      2013-03-20 16:26:35.026843525 +0000
>+++ TNEF.pm     2013-03-20 17:37:45.030484881 +0000
>@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
>   # Create the subdir to unpack it into
>   #my $unpackdir = "tnef.$$";
>   my ($tmpfh, $unpackdir) = tempfile("tnefXXXXXX", TMPDIR => $dir, UNLINK
>=> 0);
>-  $dir =~ s,^.*/,,;
>+#  $dir =~ s,^.*/,,;
>   $unpackdir = $message->MakeNameSafe($unpackdir, $dir);
>  unless (mkdir "$dir/$unpackdir", 0777) {
>     MailScanner::Log::WarnLog("Trying to unpack %s in message %s, could
>not create subdirectory %s, failed to unpack TNEF message", $tnefname,
>$message->{id},
>
>I don't understand why we're getting rid of the full path in this part of
>MailScanner code!  Did it solve anything for anybody?  It breaks TNEF
>expansion in my actual configuration !
>
>
>Dave
>
>
>From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of David
Hill
>Sent: March-20-13 12:35 PM
>To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>Subject: RE: TNEF external expander vs internal
>
>Hi guys,
>
>                I may have < found > the problem but I'm not sure :
>
>2013-03-20T16:28:26.021724+00:00 mailserver  MailScanner[11855]: Corrupt
>TNEF winmail.dat that cannot be analysed in message 4E5601ED1.AD737
>2013-03-20T16:30:00.824823+00:00 mailserver MailScanner[12178]: Expanding
>TNEF archive at
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/12178/D07311ED1.A0ADA/winmail.dat
>2013-03-20T16:30:00.826306+00:00 mailserver MailScanner[12178]: Trying to
>unpack nwinmail.dat in message D07311ED1.A0ADA, could not create
>subdirectory D07311ED1.A0ADA//tnef6sGA3q, failed to unpack TNEF message -
>/var/spool/postfix/hold
>2013-03-20T16:30:00.826566+00:00 mailserver MailScanner[12178]: Corrupt
>TNEF winmail.dat that cannot be analysed in message D07311ED1.A0ADA
>
>I hacked the code a bit and seems like we're in /var/spool/postfix/hold
>instead of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/ !
>
>If that's the case, perhaps the patch will be easily done?
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>From: David Hill
>Sent: March-20-13 12:24 PM
>To: 'mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info'
>Subject: TNEF external expander vs internal
>
>Hi guys,
>
>                We've upgraded from mailscanner 4.71.10-1 to 4.84.5-3 and
>we're running into an issue.
>Some people said that TNEF external expander was broken, that they applied
>a patch and/or updated to tnef 1.4.9 but this doesn't
>seem to solve our problem.     If we switch to internal, it's definitely
>solving the issue  but I think this is a hack for something that's broken.
>
>So, just to leave a trace, external is broken, internal works well.
>
>Thank you very much,
>
>Dave
>
>
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