Beta 4.39.1 released

[Roger Jochem]

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I'm not using "sign clean messages".



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Beta 4.39.1 released


> This is going to be the problem where Outlook (or OE) uses the wrong
> quoting method when sending files. It tends to use "quoted-printable" if
> the first few characters are printable characters. It should actually be
> using Base64 as quoted-printable is pretty much entitled to change the
> end-of-line sequence if it wants to.
>
> Switching off the "Sign Clean Messages" for these addresses is usually
> enough to stop it rebuilding the MIME message, which works around the
> problem.
>
> There isn't an easy way to solve this one.
>
> Roger Jochem wrote:
>
> >Did you have some time to find about the text files that changed files
and
> >format?
> >
> >Problem below...
> >---------------------
> >
> >Hello, Julian
> >
> >Did you have a change to read my posts about the text files? I'm having
this
> >problem with these particular text files and some binary files...
> >
> >I put the two problematic files in an web page, if somebody could make a
> >test and see if it happens in your location too, would be intersting.
> >
> >The first one (file.prj) goes out from Outlook Express with 1,80 Kb, as
an
> >"ASCII text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators", and goes
to
> >the destinatary with 1,93 Kb, as an "ASCII text, with very long lines".
> >
> >The second one is a bigger file, identified only as "data" by the file
> >command. It goes out with 916 Kb, and goes to the destinatary with 952
Kb.
> >Really strange...
> >
> >(The sizes of the files are the one presented in Outlook Express, I just
put
> >these sizes here to show how the file sizes are diferent in my outbox and
> >the destinatary inbox).
> >
> >The two files are at http://www.rudnick.com.br/files
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Roger Jochem
> >--------------
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:33 PM
> >Subject: Beta 4.39.1 released
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have just released the first beta of the next version of MailScanner,
> >>4.39.1.
> >>
> >>There have been a little collection of relatively important fixes in
> >>this release, especially for users of the phishing net who may have seen
> >>occasional messages with the body of the HTML email appearing to be
> >>mostly blank.
> >>
> >>Download it as usual from www.mailscanner.info.
> >>
> >>The full Change Log is this:
> >>* New Features and Improvements *
> >>- If the AttachmentWarning message put into a message is empty
> >>
> >>
> >(zero-length)
> >
> >
> >>  then the empty attachment won't be added to the message at all.
> >>- Added scanning of PE's by default to clamavmodule scanner.
> >>- Added feature when IP address in a ruleset has all 4 numbers, so that
a
> >>  full string match is done against the client IP, not a substring
match.
> >>- Added support for output from latest F-Prot.
> >>
> >>* Fixes *
> >>- Corrected problem with <a> tags that have no text contents and no
</a>.
> >>- 2 minor typos in the Swedish reports.
> >>- Changed check_MailScanner to check_mailscanner in cron job.
> >>- Fixed problem where files with no extension, inside a zip file, were
> >>  extracted with ".dat" added onto the end of them.
> >>- Fixed problem with phishing net being confused by some malformed URLs.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Julian Field
> >>www.MailScanner.info
> >>Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
> >>
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