uuencoded att's not scanned by Mailscanner?

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jan 28 14:07:21 GMT 2002


At 13:40 28/01/2002, you wrote:
> > At 04:47 28/01/2002, you wrote:
> > >Are uuencoded attachments not scanned by Mailscanner? When I send a
> > >uuencoded eicar.com, the eicar.com attachment arrives at the destination,
> > >without
> > >being blocked by mailscanner.
> >
> > Proper attachments that are uuencoded should be scanned by MailScanner.
> > However what you created wasn't a proper attachment, it was just inline in
> > the message without any proper MIME headers or anything.
>
>OK, but the eicar.com arrives as an correct attachment in Outlook Express
>and Outlook. Maybe Microsoft is wrong about that, but it causes a dangerous
>situation. It could be nice to be pragmatic and also decode 'ugly' uuencoded
>files (like Outlook Express).
>
>Furthermore I'll do some tests with pure uuencoded (non-MIME) attachments to
>see if that works as expected.

Use version 3.04, you'll find this behaviour has changed (you didn't write
MyParty did you? (Joke!!!) :-)
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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