From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 14:13:44 CST

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Vlada Macek:
> Today I experienced a queue stucked mail. Amavis was unable to unpack a
> gzipped attachment:
>
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> 366C29C0A5 71028 Tue Jan 3 16:27:13 EMAIL1
> (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing,
> id=17863-06, decoding2-get-file-types FAILED: 'file' utility
> (/usr/bin/file) failed, status=255 (65280 ) at /usr/sbin/amavisd-new
> line 3853. (in reply to end of DATA command))
> EMAIL2
>
> Corresponding log lines are:
>
> Jan 3 16:27:28 amavis[29925]: (29925-01) Decoding of part-00003 (gzip
> compressed data, from Unix, max compression) failed, leaving it
> unpacked: Error running decompressor /bin/gzip -d on part-00003, exit
> status 1 at /usr/sbin/amavisd-new line 4208.
> Jan 3 16:27:28 amavis[29925]: (29925-01) TROUBLE in check_mail:
> decoding2-get-file-types FAILED: 'file' utility (/usr/bin/file) failed,
> status=255 (65280 ) at /usr/sbin/amavisd-new line 3853.
> Jan 3 16:27:28 amavis[29925]: (29925-01) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in
> /var/lib/amavis/amavis-20060103T162727-29925

Have you tried running /usr/bin/file on the files left
behind as "evidence"?

        Wietse

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