Read Reciept Signing & PDF's

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 4 12:00:52 IST 2004


At 11:37 04/05/2004, you wrote:
>At 11:28 04/05/2004, you wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>> > Behalf Of Julian Field
>> > Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2004 6:07 PM
>> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> > Subject: Re: Read Reciept Signing & PDF's
>> >
>> > At 00:17 04/05/2004, you wrote:
>> > >Hi Julian,
>> > >
>> > >It would appear that read reciepts are still being signed, abeit a lot
>> > >more gracefully, and PDF's are still being corrupted in the 4.30.3-1
>> > >version of MailScanner.
>> >
>> > It should now only be signing text/html and text/plain message parts. Can
>> > you check the MIME headers in a message that has been corrupted? If the
>> > PDF
>> > has been put in a text/plain, then there ain't much I can do :-(
>> >
>>
>>Hi Julian,
>>
>>Full message source at http://www.platformhosting.com/pdf/corrupted.txt
>
>But having taken a look at that message, the PDF attachment has not been
>signed at all. Only the original text and HTML inline bodies were signed,
>the PDF file wasn't.

Have you got the original message from before it went into MailScanner? Or
can you re-create the problem? I think it's an end-of-line sequence
problem. Fundamentally Outlook shouldn't have sent the file as
quoted-printable in the first place.
--
Julian Field
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