[Mimedefang] minor(?) Problem with MIME/Parser/Filer.pm

[Stephane Lentz]

Hi David,

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:53:34PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> 
> > Nov 6 10:14:06 ux-2s02 mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave
> > 1 stderr: ignoring text in character set `WINDOWS-1252'
> 
> MIME::Tools is probably a bit buggy.  I think I've fixed most of the
> really bad bugs with my RP-Patched version, but it really needs
> a thorough rewrite.
> 
> Volunteers? :-)
> 

Mailscanner's author (Julian Field) also tried to fix the problem :
<<
Date:         Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:46:14 +0100
From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: error form my desktop server
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

At 16:44 02/10/2002, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Anybody can help me about this
>
>"ignoring text in character set `WINDOWS-1252'
> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm line 646"

I've been trying to find a solution to this one for ages.
If anyone out there reckons they are pretty good at Perl and fancies
working out how the Parser/Filer stuff in MIME-tools works, and come up
with a fix for this, I would be most grateful!
>>

Lately, he found some work-around :
<<
Date:         Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:34:03 +0000
From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Mime problem?
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

At 12:24 01/11/2002, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>This logs to my console every now and then since I upgraded to MS 4 (from
>3.x)
>
>ignoring text in character set `WINDOWS-1252'
> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm line 646
>
>Just wondering if this is something to be concerned about?
>If it is ignoring text kan it still check it for Spam?
>Maybe this really should be a question for SA?

I have already fixed this (couple of days ago) and this will be included in
the security release of MailScanner 3 and 4 that I will be doing in a day
or two.

It's not actually very important at all, it doesn't affect the virus
scanning. It only affects the attachment filenames, it does not affect the
contents of the attachments.

It's a MIME-tools problem, which fortunately I have worked around without
anyone needing to patch the MIME-tools modules themselves.
>>

I guess you should contact him or have a look at the MailScanner code
to know what the work-around is.

The best solution would be a MIME::Tools rewritten from scratch (that's
what the MIME::Tools author planned) but still no news ....

Regards, 

SL/
---
Stephane Lentz / Alcanet International - Internet Services