Curious case of the non-existent file attachment

[Glenn Steen]

On 19/09/06, Jim Holland <mailscanner at mango.zw> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Glenn Steen wrote:
>
> > > So for some reason MailScanner has interpreted part of a line in an html
> > > attachment as being a separate attachment:
> > >
> > > coworker when she asks<br>me if her feet are too ugly to wear sandals.&nbsp;
> > >
> > > It doesn't look like anything serious, but a curious anomaly.  (Now if
> > > only I could really understand your Perl code :-)
> > >
> > You wouldn't happen to have the original around (Archiving perhaps?
> > Nah, didn't think so:-)? Mightn't this be a bungled spam... Where the
> > mime part is seriously out of whack?
> > Hard to tell without the original message:)
>
> I always set "Quarantine Whole Message = yes" for infected messages, just
> for this sort of situation :-)
>
> Anyway - see second message.  An examination of the quarantined message
> does seem to have shown up the cause - misinterpretation of a text line as
> being the start of a uuencoded attachment.
>
Yeah, I saw that. Nice catch;).

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