Beta 4.51.2: "Use TNEF Contents"

[Julian Field]

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Can anyone generate 0-length bodies in TNEF messages? My Outlook 2003 
won't do it, it always generates at least 1 blank line, which works fine.

Julian Field wrote:
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> On 24 Feb 2006, at 16:53, Rick Cooper wrote:
>>
>>
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>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Julian
>>> Field
>>> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:41 AM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: Beta 4.51.2: "Use TNEF Contents"
>>>
>>>
>> [...]
>>>> Well found, thankyou. This is why I have beta versions :-)
>>>> Please try editing TNEF.pm (in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner).
>>>> On line 275 you should see this:
>>>>     next if /^msg[\d-]+\.txt$/;
>>>> Please try commenting out that line and try the test again.
>>>
>>> And another change too:
>>> In Message.pm around line 1680 there will be some code that says this:
>>>
>>>    # Now try the same on all the parts
>>>    my(@parts, $part, @keep);
>>>    @parts = $entity->parts;
>>>    foreach $part (@parts) {
>>>      push @keep, $part unless DeleteEntity($message, $part, $tnef) 
>>> == 1;
>>>    }
>>>    $entity->parts(\@keep);
>>>
>>> After that, add this line:
>>>    $entity->make_singlepart unless scalar(@keep);
>>>
>>> and try again.
>>>
>>> Hopefully both of these combined will help solve the problem.
>>>
>>> If you can see if this fixes the problem, I'll put it out in a new
>>> beta this weekend.
>>
>> Nope, still fails with same error
>>
>
> My copy of Outlook won't reproduce the problem, certainly not with 
> sendmail as the MTA.
>
> Please can you zip up the raw queue files of a message that shows the 
> problem and send it to me at mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk.
>
> Ideally I would like 1 totally empty message (no body or attachments) 
> and 1 message with 1 attachment but no body. Both of those should 
> exhibit the problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Julian Field
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