dbf file corruption?

[Julian Field]

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At 10:56 08/09/2004, you wrote:
> >>This may be a quoted-printable encoding problem, due to a bug in Outlook
> >>which causes it to break qp-encoded files in a few situations. We are
> >>working on a workaround for this, hopefully we will have something
> ready soon.
>
> >>The most common case by far is windows-generated pdf files sent from
> >>Outlook. It incorrectly qp encodes these files which breaks them as it gets
> >>the qp encoding wrong :-(
>
>Foregive me to jump in here, but I am quite new to MailScanner and
>interrested how this could happen.
>
>In the doks it is stated:
>
>"To minimise any chance of message corruption, any messages that are found
>to be entirely
>clean and uninfected are moved directly between the two queues; no attempt
>is made to
>rebuild them from their constituent MIME entities. A message is only
>rebuilt from its MIME
>entities if an infection or dangerous filename was found, causing the
>replacement of the
>attachment with a text message. "
>
>So how could this happen ?
>If I read this correct the whole message should have been passed to the
>output queue
>untouched ?
>
>Sorry if I missed anything obious here.

If you sign the message (Sign Clean Messages = yes) then it also has to
rebuild the message. Basically any change to the message body will force a
rebuild.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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