[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.5 startup-only error message

[David F. Skoll]

On 18 Feb 2002, Vincent Jaussaud wrote:

> I've just upgraded to MIMEDefang v2.5, and I now see the following error
> message in my logfiles.
> However, this error is only reported when the first thread comes up.
> (see below)
> Other threads don't report any errors.

Weird.  The redefined subroutine messages is a glitch in Perl 5.005
on Linux.  I get those too.

> Also, in the filter_begin code, you recommend to add:
>     action_rebuild();

> I'm not sure to understand... Why do we need to rebuild every messages,
> since mails will suspicious chars in headers are already discarded ?

There are other ways to mangle MIME (like adding two "name=foo" sections
in the Content-Description: header) which could cause problems.  So
it's best to rebuild the messages always.

Regards,

David.