NULL characters in message

[Jim Dickenson]

One of my co-workers is having problems with Microsoft Outlook 2003 getting
email from our POP3 server. It seems that if there is a message with a NULL
character in it Outlook refuses to pick up the message, or any message after
the problem message. He needs to use our web mail interface to delete the
message. He can then get the rest of his messages via Outlook.

Are others having this problem?

Can someone offer a rule that I can put somewhere, either in MailScanner or
SpamAssassin, to raise the Spam score of email with a NULL character in the
body of the message?

My mail server is running Red Hat Linux 9.0, with all patches, SA 2.6.3,
MailScanner 4.31.6-1, Sendmail 8.12.8 and version 2001a of the POP server
from http://www.washington.edu/imap/.

Thanks,
--
Jim Dickenson

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