Allow Form Tags = no

[Michele Neylon]

Paul Houselander <> scribbled on 22 June 2005 14:09:

> Hi
> 
> Just been doing some testing as I saw a message come through that had
> been blocked (due to it containing a form tag) but part of the
> message still displayed  
> 
> I have
> 
> Allow Form Tags = no
> Convert Dangerous HTML To Text = no
> Convert HTML To Text = no
> 
> I sent myself a message with a form tag + some extra HTML e.g. table
> and some bullet points. When I recieved the email the form tag was
> stripped out, I got the warning message saying the mail had been
> blocked but the rest of the email was displayed but converted to
> plain text - is this correct? With the above settings I was thinking
> the whole email should be blocked?     
> 
> Im using the rpm version of 4.41.3 on a fedora core 2 box.
> 

Couple of things.

It could be that you have conflicting setting in your MailScanner.conf

You may also need to take into account that the html parser may not have
picked up on all of the tags.

Of course I could be imagining all this ...

M


Mr Michele Neylon
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