MS encoding email bodies?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Feb 24 12:07:24 GMT 2005


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Can you post an uncorrupted mail and a corrupted one please?

Lee Stone wrote:

>Hello
>
>I hope someone can help me here - I upgraded at the weekend to MS v4.38.10-1
>from v4.32.5 or thereabouts. I also upgraded ClamAV and SA.
>
>I host a phpBB forum which sends out user confirmation emails to newly
>registered members. The body of these emails used to say something along the
>lines of "welcome to the forum - click here to activate your membership...."
>with a link comprising URL+7-bit_code. These are now coming through with the
>whole body [mime?-]encoded and illegible.
>
>Now, I cannot for the life of me work out where in MailScanner.conf I turn
>off this encoding - if indeed this is where I do it.
>
>I know it is not the forum doing it, I can temporarily route outgoing emails
>through another mail server [still running MS 4.32.5] and they come through
>intact.
>
>Your advice would be welcome.
>
>Regards
>
>Lee Stone
>
>MS 4.38.10
>SuSE linux 9.0
>SA 2.64-4
>Perl 5.8.1 [was updated but hit memory-race issue so downgraded again]
>Mail::SpamAssassin 3.000002
>Mail::ClamAV 0.13
>
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