Messages w/o text not being marked clean.

[Chris Selivanow]

It actually looks like Eudora is complaining that "MIME-Version: 1.0"
isn't in the main headers.  If I manually edit the spool file and insert
it before the usesr POPs the mail it works fine.  Is there a way to have
mailscanner check for a "MIME-Version" header and insert it if it doesn't
exist and if a uuencoded file was converted?


-Chris

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:52:23 -0500
Chris Selivanow <cselivanow at QWICNET.COM> wrote:

CS> Julian-
CS>
CS> Thanks for the responce.  I had previously posted a question regarding Outlook
CS> and attachments.  I think that I have solved my  issue with that and it seems
CS> to be related to this issue and how mailscanner handles uuencoded messages.
CS>
CS> Here is the situation:  I have a client where some people are using outlook 97
CS> and some people are using Eudora 5.  Before the mailscanner (3.27)install there
CS> were no problems.  After the mailscanner install those who were using Eudora
CS> were having issues with attachments sent via outlook.  Basically the multipart
CS> message content was all being displayed in the message body.
CS>
CS> The reason follows:
CS>
CS> Mailscanner converts a uuencoded message, which only has one part ie: lacking
CS> a "Content-type" header, and converts it into a base64 encoded multipart
CS> message.  This is all fine and well.  However, mailscanner also adds the text:
CS>
CS> The following is a multipart MIME message which was extracted
CS> from a uuencoded message.
CS>
CS> Mailscanner does not however add a boundery line like:
CS>
CS>      ------------=_1046891750-551-2
CS>
CS> before the previous message.  This causes Eudora to believe one of two things
CS> (as far a I can tell)
CS>
CS> 1)  That the message really isn't a multipart message
CS> 2)  That it has another part that is missing (ie: the attachment)
CS>
CS> I'm not really sure of the innerworkings of mailscanner but this seems to
CS> be what happens.  Is there a way to resolve this?  Besides having my
CS> client tell their senders to reconfigure thier outlook?
CS>
CS> -Chris
CS>
CS> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:11:57 +0000
CS> Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
CS>
CS> JF> At 17:24 05/03/2003, you wrote:
CS> JF> >Hi all-
CS> JF> >
CS> JF> >I noticed that if I send an email with an attachment but no text in the body
CS> JF> >of the email that the mailscanner will scan the message but not append the
CS> JF> >clean message signature.  Of course if there is at least one character in the
CS> JF> >body then the signature is appended.  Is there any way to get the signature
CS> JF> >appended every time?
CS> JF>
CS> JF> It appends the signature to the first html and/or text segment of the
CS> JF> message. If there's no body at all, there's nowhere to put the signature.
CS> JF>
CS> JF> I'll take a look at the possibility of creating a body if needed.
CS> JF> --
CS> JF> Julian Field
CS> JF> www.MailScanner.info
CS> JF> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
CS> JF> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
CS>
CS>
CS> --
CS> Chris Selivanow             585 582-1600
CS> Lead Technician             585 624-3465 (fax)
CS> QwicNet, Inc.               http://www.qwicnet.com


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Chris Selivanow             585 582-1600
Lead Technician             585 624-3465 (fax)
QwicNet, Inc.               http://www.qwicnet.com