Beta 4.34.4 released

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Julian Field wrote:

> I have just released a new unstable/beta release 4.34.4.
>
> The new additions are the options
>        Bounce Spam As Attachment
>        Bounce MCP As Attachment
>
> The spam bouncing option is for those who have pointy-haired bosses who
> insist on bouncing spam, especially when it claimed to come from one 
> of the
> business partners or important customers.
>
> The MCP bouncing option might be rather more useful for those using MCP a
> lot, as the person who sent the message will get to see exactly which
> message of theirs was bounced, as previously they would only have seen 
> the
> subject line.
>
> The maximum size of the content taken from the original message is 
> limited
> by the "Max SpamAssassin Size" setting. Yes, that sounds a bit random, 
> you
> are quite right, but it happened to be at hand at the time :-) If you 
> don't
> like it, I can create 2 more max size options as well if you like, but 
> the
> value is pretty arbitrary.
>
> It just needs to be a sane limit to prevent a denial of service attack
> against the site who sent the spam/mcp message that was bounced. 
> Otherwise
> you could use this feature to generate huge messages back to the claimed
> sender, which they might well let through as they could be made to appear
> to come from an important supplier (or business partner) of theirs.


Julian,

It seems to work just fine here!

Thanks again!

Denis

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