NULL characters in message

[Julian Field]

At 16:43 20/06/2004, you wrote:
>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?

Haven't seen any reports of it before.

>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?

Read "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" and add a "body" rule that matches /\0/


>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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