Error with Content-Type

[Julian Field]

At 13:44 04/10/2002, you wrote:
>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.

There is now a "Attachment Encoding Charset" configuration variable in 
version 4.

It can even be a ruleset so you can change the character set you use, based 
on what country the message is going to :-)

>Thanks for a great product!

My pleasure.

>PS: I should yave access to a test system next week so I'll be
>experimenting with V4 then.

I want to get another V4 release done this weekend, along with RPM's for 
RedHat 7 and 8 if possible. Have now got my main office PC looking like a 
Windows box if you ftp or telnet to it, and looking like a Linux box if you 
ssh to it :-)

>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

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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