Error with Content-Type

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
   While I don't use this part of mailscanner (replacing infected
attachments with a message; I just dump the message), I have to second
the idea of using ISO-8859-1.  For all of my many Sun systems, this is
the charset that I chose during the OS install.  In fact, I think it is
the default for Sun if you just hit the carriage return at this point in
the OS install.

   We have lots of students at Colby studying foreign languages.  And our
French-speaking Canadian friends are a short drive north of here.  Eight-bit
character sets and accents are a good thing!

** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D                         PHONE: 207-872-3659
** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology    EMAIL: jaearick at colby.edu
** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,               FAX: 207-872-3076
** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:44:50 -0400
> From: Denis Beauchemin <Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Error with Content-Type
>
> Julian,
>
> I found a way to get ISO-8859-1 instead of us-ascii and my problem is
> resolved.
>
> I had to modify explode.pl such as:
> # diff explode.pl.orig explode.pl
> 332c332,335
> <                            Charset => 'us-ascii',
> ---
> >                            # Modif de Denis Beauchemin le 20021003
> >                          # pour mettre ISO-8859-1
> >                            #Charset => 'us-ascii',
> >                            Charset => 'ISO-8859-1',
> 359c362,365
> <                            Charset => 'us-ascii',
> ---
> >                            # Modif de Denis Beauchemin le 20021003
> >                          # pour mettre ISO-8859-1
> >                            #Charset => 'us-ascii',
> >                            Charset => 'ISO-8859-1',
>
> Could you find a way to roll this into future releases?  We could define
> a variable in mailsacnner.conf:
> Attachment Encoding Charset = ISO-8859-1
> and you could use this value whenever you need to insert an attachment.
>
> Thanks for a great product!
>
> Denis
> PS: I should yave access to a test system next week so I'll be
> experimenting with V4 then.
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:42, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of my users (using Outlook) just noticed that whenever a virus is
> > quarantined the attachment with the contents of the
> > stored.virus.message.txt file uses a charset="us-ascii" making it look
> > like it has a parity problem.
> >
> > Since I use accented characters, a charset=ISO-8859-1 would be more
> > appropriate.
> >
> > Could this be done?
> >
> > I'm using mailscanner-3.22-14 on RH 7.3 and McAfee
> > Stored Virus Message Report  = /usr/local/MailScanner/etc/stored.virus.message.txt
> > MTA                = sendmail
> > Attachment Warning Filename = AlerteVirus.txt
> > Warning Is Attachment = no
> >
> > BTW, shouldn't the "Warning Is Attachment = no" make this warning part
> > of the message body?
> >
> > Here is an piece of the source of such a message:
> > -------------------------------------
> > --=-Aazr6az/KhvLs6qFFLrD
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > ATTENTION !!!
> > Au moins une pi=E8ce jointe =E0 ce message ne vous a pas =E9t=E9 transmise.
> > SVP lire la pi=E8ce jointe =ABAlerteVirus.txt=BB pour plus d'informations.
> >
> > --=-Aazr6az/KhvLs6qFFLrD
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="AlerteVirus.txt"
> > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="AlerteVirus.txt"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > Avertissement de la passerelle antivirus de l'Universit=E9 de Sherbrooke
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > La pi=E8ce jointe "bugbear.virus"
> > contient probablement un virus.  Elle a =E9t=E9 remplac=E9e par cet avertis=
> > sement.
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Denis
> > --
> > Denis Beauchemin, analyste
> > Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
> > T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045
> >
> --
> Denis Beauchemin, analyste
> Université de Sherbrooke, S.T.I.
> T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045
>