MIMEDefang 2.9-BETA-2 (was Re: [Mimedefang] filter timeout w/ 2.8)

[David F. Skoll]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:33:16 -0400 Douglas J Hunley
<doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:

> Just to add my voice to the list, I'm also seeing 'filter timeouts' with the
> latest mimedefang. I already had code to only check messages smaller than
> 50K, and this is the first I've ever seen the filter timeout.
> I'm also using the Mime::Tools patch from roaringpenguin.com...

Darn.

OK, please try 2.9-Beta-2.  It's at:

        http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/mimedefang-2.9-BETA-2.tar.gz

PLEASE READ the rest of this e-mail before installing!

1) You need to obtain a fresh copy of MIME-Tools 5.411a and patch it with
an updated patch which is included in the 2.9 Beta 2 tar file.  The official
version of MIME-Tools does not understand RFC 2231 encodings.  See
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2231.txt for details.  This is such a serious
deficiency that I will fork MIME-Tools if the author does not accept the
patch for inclusion in the offical release.  The patched MIME-Tools should
pass all regression tests.

2) There is a new "-k" option to mimedefang (not mimdefang-multiplexor) which
causes it to keep spool files if the filter fails.  If you could run for
a while with the "-k" option, any more timeouts should result in the
message being preserved.  Please tar/gzip the message and send it to me
for analysis.

3) A highly improbable (but nevertheless possible) race condition in the
multiplexor was fixed.

Regards,

David.