ANNOUNCE: Version 3.23-3 released

[Julian Field]

At 18:57 25/09/2002, you wrote:
>"(I've spent my afternoon up to my neck in 6ft racks, RAID arrays and SGI
>fileservers)."
>
>Wow!  You must be tall! :)

Leap over tall buildings in a single bound, me :)



>-----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

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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
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ