Messages w/o text not being marked clean.

[Craig Pratt]

Actually, would having it on all messages really be a problem?

That would certainly simplify things. Couldn't a procmail recipe that
says to just add this header if not present?

Craig

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:38  PM, Chris Selivanow wrote:
> 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
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> CS>
> CS>
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>
>
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> Chris Selivanow             585 582-1600
> Lead Technician             585 624-3465 (fax)
> QwicNet, Inc.               http://www.qwicnet.com
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