Messages w/o text not being marked clean.

[Chris Selivanow]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:07:49 -0800
Craig Pratt <craig at STRONG-BOX.NET> wrote:

CP> Actually, would having it on all messages really be a problem?
CP>
CP> That would certainly simplify things. Couldn't a procmail recipe that
CP> says to just add this header if not present?

Actually I could do that however, I think that mailscanner should be adding
it because it appears that it actually causes the problem after it
converts a uuencoded message to a MIME multipart message.  It should be
adding the MIME-Version header to the email it modifies.

-Chris

CP>
CP> Craig
CP>
CP> On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:38  PM, Chris Selivanow wrote:
CP> > It actually looks like Eudora is complaining that "MIME-Version: 1.0"
CP> > isn't in the main headers.  If I manually edit the spool file and
CP> > insert
CP> > it before the usesr POPs the mail it works fine.  Is there a way to
CP> > have
CP> > mailscanner check for a "MIME-Version" header and insert it if it
CP> > doesn't
CP> > exist and if a uuencoded file was converted?
CP> >
CP> > -Chris
CP> >
CP> > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:52:23 -0500
CP> > Chris Selivanow <cselivanow at QWICNET.COM> wrote:
CP> >
CP> > CS> Julian-
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> Thanks for the responce.  I had previously posted a question
CP> > regarding Outlook
CP> > CS> and attachments.  I think that I have solved my  issue with that
CP> > and it seems
CP> > CS> to be related to this issue and how mailscanner handles uuencoded
CP> > messages.
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> Here is the situation:  I have a client where some people are
CP> > using outlook 97
CP> > CS> and some people are using Eudora 5.  Before the mailscanner
CP> > (3.27)install there
CP> > CS> were no problems.  After the mailscanner install those who were
CP> > using Eudora
CP> > CS> were having issues with attachments sent via outlook.  Basically
CP> > the multipart
CP> > CS> message content was all being displayed in the message body.
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> The reason follows:
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> Mailscanner converts a uuencoded message, which only has one part
CP> > ie: lacking
CP> > CS> a "Content-type" header, and converts it into a base64 encoded
CP> > multipart
CP> > CS> message.  This is all fine and well.  However, mailscanner also
CP> > adds the text:
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> The following is a multipart MIME message which was extracted
CP> > CS> from a uuencoded message.
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> Mailscanner does not however add a boundery line like:
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS>      ------------=_1046891750-551-2
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> before the previous message.  This causes Eudora to believe one of
CP> > two things
CP> > CS> (as far a I can tell)
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> 1)  That the message really isn't a multipart message
CP> > CS> 2)  That it has another part that is missing (ie: the attachment)
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> I'm not really sure of the innerworkings of mailscanner but this
CP> > seems to
CP> > CS> be what happens.  Is there a way to resolve this?  Besides having
CP> > my
CP> > CS> client tell their senders to reconfigure thier outlook?
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> -Chris
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:11:57 +0000
CP> > CS> Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
CP> > CS>
CP> > CS> JF> At 17:24 05/03/2003, you wrote:
CP> > CS> JF> >Hi all-
CP> > CS> JF> >
CP> > CS> JF> >I noticed that if I send an email with an attachment but no
CP> > text in the body
CP> > CS> JF> >of the email that the mailscanner will scan the message but
CP> > not append the
CP> > CS> JF> >clean message signature.  Of course if there is at least one
CP> > character in the
CP> > CS> JF> >body then the signature is appended.  Is there any way to get
CP> > the signature
CP> > CS> JF> >appended every time?
CP> > CS> JF>
CP> > CS> JF> It appends the signature to the first html and/or text segment
CP> > of the
CP> > CS> JF> message. If there's no body at all, there's nowhere to put the
CP> > signature.
CP> > CS> JF>
CP> > CS> JF> I'll take a look at the possibility of creating a body if
CP> > needed.
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