PDFs getting mangled
Stephan Bosch
stephan at rename-it.nl
Mon Jan 22 21:58:22 EET 2018
Op 1/21/2018 om 4:34 PM schreef Stephan Bosch:
> Op 1/20/2018 om 11:01 PM schreef Adam Weinberger:
>>> On 20 Jan, 2018, at 10:05, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 19 Jan, 2018, at 4:39, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19.01.2018 04:35, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>>>> Since upgrading to 2.3.0 / 0.5.0.1, incoming PDFs are getting mangled.
>>>>> It seems to be happening when I use vnd.dovecot.filter. When I comment
>>>>> out the block, things come through fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> My filter block looks like this:
>>>>> require "vnd.dovecot.filter";
>>>>> filter "bogofilter_filter";
>>>>>
>>>>> if header :contains "X-Bogosity" [
>>>>> "Spam, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=1.00",
>>>>> "Spam, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.99"
>>>>> ] {
>>>>> fileinto "spam/totally";
>>>>> stop;
>>>>> }
>>>>> elsif header :contains "X-Bogosity" "Spam," {
>>>>> fileinto "spam/probably";
>>>>> stop;
>>>>> }
>>>>> elsif header :contains "X-Bogosity" "Unsure," {
>>>>> fileinto "spam/maybe";
>>>>> stop;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> filter/bogofilter_filter looks like this:
>>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>> cat /dev/stdin | /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -p -e -c
>>>>> /path/to/bogofilter.cf
>>>>>
>>>>> Images seem to come through fine. I didn't have this problem before
>>>>> the
>>>>> upgrade. It could easily be a problem with bogofilter, but I figured
>>>>> that I'd check here first to see if anybody else has an
>>>>> attachment-mangling issue with vnd.dovecot.filter.
>>>>>
>>>>> # Adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Adam Weinberger
>>>>> adamw at adamw.org
>>>>> http://www.adamw.org
>>>> It might work better with
>>>>
>>>> exec /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -p -e -c /path/to/bogofilter.cf
>>>>
>>>> Aki
>>> After looking into this some more, what's happening is that messages
>>> are getting truncated. Regardless of whether it's an attachment or
>>> just a long message body, the message gets truncated.
>>>
>>> To show this, I made a fileinto :copy rule to save a message copy
>>> before it gets sent off to bogofilter.
>>>
>>> You can see from the below pastings that the message is definitely
>>> getting truncated. When I replace my filter script with "cat
>>> /dev/stdin", it works fine. When I send the message to bogofilter on
>>> the command-line, it works fine. Something about the combination of
>>> vnd.dovecot.filter + bogofilter is causing the messages to truncate,
>>> and I don't know whether it's from truncating on the send or receive
>>> of the filter.
>>>
>>> Can you give me any advice?
>>>
>>> 1)
>>> $ jot 200000 1 > numbers.txt
>>> $ du -a . | grep numbers
>>> 1260 ./numbers-sent.txt
>>> 1248 ./numbers-received.txt
>>>
>>> 2)
>>> root at imap:~# ll test-*
>>> 125 -rw------- 1 root wheel 123K Jan 20 09:35 test-afterbogo.msg
>>> 149 -rw------- 1 root wheel 136K Jan 20 09:35 test-beforebogo.msg
>> The more I look into it, the more it looks to me like pigeonhole is
>> somehow losing the last 4-6K of messages over 100K.
>>
>> When my filter script is:
>> cat /dev/stdin | tee /tmp/input | bogofilter[...] | tee /tmp/output
>> Then /tmp/output is the full message, but what pigeonhole gets back is
>> truncated at by about 4K.
>>
>> Same with
>> [...] bogofilter[...] > /tmp/output; cat /tmp/output
>> The message is truncated there too.
>>
>> I've tried everything I can think of to make sure it's not a buffering
>> problem:
>> [...] bogofilter[...] | cat
>> [...] bogofilter[...] | dd bs=1k
>> [...] bogofilter[...] ; a=$?; sleep 2; exit $a
>>
>> But everything I do comes up with the same problem.
>>
>> But a simple "cat /dev/stdin" and the message comes through fine.
>>
>> Your help is really appreciated. I'm in the process of buying a house,
>> so the mangled attachments is not coming at a great time :-)
> We are looking into it.
Problem found; working on a fix.
Regards,
Stephan.
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