Mailscanner does not identify attachment in mail

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,

Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
> On Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:31 PM Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> 
>> I don't think this is not a MailScanner thing. uuencoded messages are
>> indeed scanned by SA like a text message and may create weird
>> results. I guess they didn't stop this so spammers can't bypass by a
>> simple begin line.   
> 
> Ok. This would answer my second question in my earlier post. I also assume
> it's a SA "problem" not a MailScanner one. But how does one solve this?
> Sending uuencoded files like this in productive systems seems stupid to me
> but I stopped trying to change the world. It does happen. Do all of you
> whitelist such hosts?

We would really need to see which SA rules hit.  (Sorry if you provided 
that in an earlier post, I didn't keep a copy).

I doubt whether it is the fact that it is a UUencoded post is the only 
factor.

-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
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