ANNOUNCE: Version 3.23-3 released

[Mike Kercher]

"(I've spent my afternoon up to my neck in 6ft racks, RAID arrays and SGI fileservers)."

Wow!  You must be tall! :)


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:40 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Version 3.23-3 released


At 15:18 25/09/2002, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
> > Just 1 minor bug fix. Doesn't affect actual functionality, but stops the
> > mail log swearing like a trooper. And yes, it really does fix the bug, not
> > just change the log message...
>
>should this fix the:
>
> >> > > >One thing I am wondering with, why does this eicar.com gfi test
>email goes
> >> > > >to my outlook express deleted items with a modified subject {VIRUS?}
> >> > > >eicar.com [1/5] up to [5/5] and theres no warning message in the
>body and
> >> > > >the attachment is intact with the filename eicar.com. im just
>wondering
> >> > > >about this.

Unfortunately, it appears that the MIME-tools modules don't cope with
message/partial very well, even with the 2nd patch applied. When I create a
new top-level MIME entity to replace the message/partial structure, it
doesn't realise it needs to merge this into the new headers. The result is
that the resulting message isn't very tidy. However, I have checked the raw
contents of the 5 messages produced by it, and none of them actually
contain any data from the original attachment. Quite what Outlook Express
makes of it, I haven't been able to try yet (I've spent my afternoon up to
my neck in 6ft racks, RAID arrays and SGI fileservers).
--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ