• Is it possible that Mailscan does not scan all attachments?

    By Tamas Lorincze 2 decades ago

    Hi!



    We have started using 0.99g of the MailScan application. Everything works fine, except for one thing.

    Every time we receive a mail, I get the following message: "Not scanning possible inline attachments"

    The log message seems to be true, since some mails just don't get scanned.



    I have attached a sample mail that contains an antivirus test file, so it should be cleaned, but it goes through without checking:



    Message-ID: <98228.1081981676@example.com>

    Mime-Version: 1.0

    Subject: Sample virus with an executable

    Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:36:33 +0200

    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-"



    This is a sample preamble.



    Content-Type: text/plain

    Content-Disposition: inline; filename="EICAR.COM"



    X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*



    Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="a.out"

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

    Content-Disposition: inline; filename="a.out"



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    BAAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAACABAgAgAQIYQUAAGEFAAAFAAAAABAAAAEAAABkBQAAZJUECGSV

    BAjQAAAA8AAAAAYAAAAAEAAAAgAAAHQFAAB0lQQIdJUECJgAAACYAAAABgAAAAQAAAAEAAAA

    EAEAABCBBAgQgQQIGAAAABgAAAAEAAAABAAAAC91c3IvbGliZXhlYy9sZC1lbGYuc28uMQAA

    AAAIAAAABAAAAAEAAABGcmVlQlNEAAilBwADAAAADwAAAA0AAAAOAAAACgAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    AAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAwAAAAUAAAAEAAAABwAAAAIAAAAGAAAACAAAAAsAAAAJAAAADAAAAAAA

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALAAAAdJUECAAAAAARAPH/FAAAACSDBAgAAAAAEgAHABoAAABQlgQI

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    DAAAACSDBAgNAAAAwIQECAQAAAAogQQIBQAAAGiCBAgGAAAAeIEECAoAAACqAAAACwAAABAA

    AAAVAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAglgQIAgAAABAAAAAUAAAAEQAAABcAAAAUgwQIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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    AAB0lQQIAAAAAAAAAABGgwQIVoMECAAkRnJlZUJTRDogc3JjL2xpYi9jc3UvY29tbW9uL2Ny

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    AAAhAAAABQAAAAIAAAAogQQIKAEAAFAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAEAAAAJwAAAAsAAAACAAAA

    eIEECHgBAADwAAAABQAAAAEAAAAEAAAAEAAAAC8AAAADAAAAAgAAAGiCBAhoAgAAqgAAAAAA

    AAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAA3AAAACQAAAAIAAAAUgwQIFAMAABAAAAAEAAAACAAAAAQAAAAIAAAA

    QAAAAAEAAAAGAAAAJIMECCQDAAALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAADsAAAABAAAABgAAADCD

    BAgwAwAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAABGAAAAAQAAAAYAAABggwQIYAMAAGABAAAAAAAA

    AAAAABAAAAAAAAAATAAAAAEAAAAGAAAAwIQECMAEAAAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAFIA

    AAABAAAAAgAAAMaEBAjGBAAAmwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAABaAAAAAQAAAAMAAABklQQI

    ZAUAAAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAEAAAACAAAAcJUECHAFAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAA

    AAAEAAAAAAAAAGoAAAAGAAAAAwAAAHSVBAh0BQAAmAAAAAUAAAAAAAAABAAAAAgAAABzAAAA

    AQAAAAMAAAAMlgQIDAYAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAegAAAAEAAAADAAAAFJYECBQG

    AAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAIEAAAABAAAAAwAAAByWBAgcBgAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    BAAAAAAAAACGAAAAAQAAAAMAAAAglgQIIAYAABQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAEAAAAiwAAAAgA

    AAADAAAANJYECDQGAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAJAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0BgAA

    YQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAlQcAAJkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEA

    AAAAAAAA



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    • This is a bug!

      By Wolfgang Zettl 2 decades ago

      I know this behaviour: it's a bug that inline- attachments are ignored, this affects kSpam and Mailscan, even Lotus Domino does not display this kind of MIME-Content properly!