Problem With PDF Files - SOLVED

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat May 1 12:45:52 IST 2004


At 02:29 01/05/2004, you wrote:
> > >Can we produce a list of the MIME-types that MailScanner should not sign.
> > >At the moment it will sign any in-line text/* section. I can easily put
> > in
> > >a little list of exceptions to catch things like text/pdf. What are the
> > >MIME types used by Outlook for these messages?
> > >
> > >It would be good to get this fixed before the next release, so the next
> > >release will have to wait until we get this resolved.
> >
> > Or would I be better off only signing text/plain and text/html?
>
>Hmm, I like this method better than the other, /however/ I have a feeling it
>may result in a heap of "corrections" post initial release.  Could this list
>of mime types be included in a ruleset?

I will restrict it to text/plain and text/html. Time will tell if this is okay.

>I don't really want to make yet another option in the config file if we
>don't have to, but perhaps this might be easiest even if it's only while
>this feature is in unstable mode.

I don't think this will be a big enough problem to warrant yet another
config option.
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