Need to reject null characters

[Julian Field]

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Brent Addis wrote:
> What do you mean by null characters?
>
> Do you mean <> ?
>
> I wouldn't recommend doing this at the MTA level as it tends to break 
> sender callout checks (Assuming you ended up upgrading postfix)
>
> I'm sure your users will get mighty annoyed when they find mail not 
> being delivered.
>
> Plus its in the RFC's that you should accept these, and we all follow 
> the RFC's, right?
>
> If your not meaning <> as null, forget my posting.
If you are getting lots of messages from <> then you need "milter-null" 
from www.snertsoft.com. It will entirely eliminate this problem. 
Fantastic software!

>
> :)
>
>
>
> Douglas Ward wrote:
>> I need to configure MailScanner or Spamassassin to reject any e-mails
>> with null characters in them.  We are getting null character spams
>> occasionally which fouls up our imap users (checking their mailboxes
>> through squirrelmail).  I know that postfix has a handy command for
>> this in 2.3 but cannot upgrade to it (due to a long and tortuous
>> Mandriva 2007 upgrade problem).  Is there another way to configure
>> this?  If not, could we request it as additional functionality in a
>> future version of MailScanner?  Any advice would be most appreciated.
>> Thanks!
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>

Jules

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