MailScanner & MIME

Tue Oct 26 20:12:12 IST 2004

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Yes, another major improvement was made in the new
MIME-tools/MIME::Base64 pair. It should look for PDF files encoded by
Outlook (which does it all wrong) and correct them.

Dave Filchak wrote:

>Julian,
>
>Has anything in the last beta release of MailScanner address any of the PDF
>issues previously discussed in the list?
>
>Cheers
>
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:33 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] MailScanner & MIME
>
>Have you upgraded MIME-tools and MIME::Base64 as well?
>Personally I would recommend the current beta as actually being better than
>the last stable release. There have been a whole world of nasty problems
>getting the module upgrades fixed.
>
>Scott Silva wrote:
>
>
>
>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>Hash: SHA1
>>
>>Gerry Maddock wrote:
>>| Hello, I just upgraded MailScanner-4.34.8-1 to MailScanner-4.34.8-4
>>| running on  a fully updated Fedora Core 2 system running
>>| sendmail-8.12.11-4.6. After I upgraded MailScanner, my users who use
>>| Outlook to compose emails in HTML format's emails come back looking
>>| strange like this:
>>|
>>| This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>|
>>| ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01C4BB54.0ABCAA40
>>| Content-Type: text/plain;
>>|         charset="iso-8859-1"
>>| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>|
>>| test
>>| ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01C4BB54.0ABCAA40
>>| Content-Type: text/html;
>>|         charset="iso-8859-1"
>>| Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>|
>>| <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>>| <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type
>>| content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META
>>| content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
>>| <BODY><STRONG><EM><U><FONT face=3DArial=20
>>| size=3D7>test</FONT></U></EM></STRONG></BODY></HTML>
>>|
>>| ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01C4BB54.0ABCAA40--
>>|
>>|
>>| Any email sent to us in html format comes back looking like that. I
>>have
>>| attached my MailScanner.conf as well. Any help would be greatly
>>| appreciated!
>>Can you post the output of MailScanner -v
>>
>>
>
>
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