Messages w/o text not being marked clean.

[Chris Selivanow]

Julian-

Thanks for the responce.  I had previously posted a question regarding Outlook
and attachments.  I think that I have solved my  issue with that and it seems
to be related to this issue and how mailscanner handles uuencoded messages.

Here is the situation:  I have a client where some people are using outlook 97
and some people are using Eudora 5.  Before the mailscanner (3.27)install there
were no problems.  After the mailscanner install those who were using Eudora
were having issues with attachments sent via outlook.  Basically the multipart
message content was all being displayed in the message body.

The reason follows:

Mailscanner converts a uuencoded message, which only has one part ie: lacking
a "Content-type" header, and converts it into a base64 encoded multipart
message.  This is all fine and well.  However, mailscanner also adds the text:

The following is a multipart MIME message which was extracted
from a uuencoded message.

Mailscanner does not however add a boundery line like:

     ------------=_1046891750-551-2

before the previous message.  This causes Eudora to believe one of two things
(as far a I can tell)

1)  That the message really isn't a multipart message
2)  That it has another part that is missing (ie: the attachment)

I'm not really sure of the innerworkings of mailscanner but this seems to
be what happens.  Is there a way to resolve this?  Besides having my
client tell their senders to reconfigure thier outlook?

-Chris

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:11:57 +0000
Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

JF> At 17:24 05/03/2003, you wrote:
JF> >Hi all-
JF> >
JF> >I noticed that if I send an email with an attachment but no text in the body
JF> >of the email that the mailscanner will scan the message but not append the
JF> >clean message signature.  Of course if there is at least one character in the
JF> >body then the signature is appended.  Is there any way to get the signature
JF> >appended every time?
JF>
JF> It appends the signature to the first html and/or text segment of the
JF> message. If there's no body at all, there's nowhere to put the signature.
JF>
JF> I'll take a look at the possibility of creating a body if needed.
JF> --
JF> Julian Field
JF> www.MailScanner.info
JF> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
JF> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support


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