Foreign filename checking

[Jules Field]

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files (use the Quarantine or Archive Mail options to store a copy of 
it), then zip those up and send them to me at 
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk. If you can't email them to me, then use 
http://dropoff.ecs.soton.ac.uk to send them to me (that's a ZendTo site, 
my other project, which you may also be interested in!).

Then I can take a look.

Jules.

On 01/11/2010 18:15, Greg Pearson wrote:
>
>
> On 1/11/2010 7:22 μμ, Kevin Miller wrote:
>> Greg Pearson wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> some of my users are used to send attachments with foreign filenames
>>> (Russian etc.). It seems that MailScanner cannot properly handle
>>> those filenames when they are converted to UTF8 by the mail client.
>>> So a filename with foreign characters would become something like:
>>>
>>> "utf-8''%%CE%%95%%CF%%83%%CF%%89%%CF%%84%%CE%%B5%%CF%%81%%CE%%B9%%CE%%BA%%CF%%8C%%CF%%82%%20%%CE%%BA%%CE%%B1%%CE%%BD%%CE%%BF%%CE%%BD%%CE%%B9%%CF%%83%%CE%%BC%%CF%%8C%%CF%%82%%20lomi%%2001%%202008.doc"
>>>
>>>
>>> And hence Mailscanner will complain that this filename is too long,
>>> which is of course not the case. It is mentioned in the Changelog
>>> that the latest version (4.81.4) has dealt with this:
>>>
>>> "16 Improved handling of Unicode and foreign character sets used in
>>> attachment filenames."
>>>
>>> But the problem remains.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't want to disable the filename length rule completely, so I
>>> would appreciate some help on this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>> Is it a discreet set of users sending these?  Or strictly internal
>> users?  Perhaps a ruleset would do the trick if can identify a
>> manageable set of senders...
>>
>>
>> ...Kevin
> Although I am not sure what you mean: I could as well disable the rule
> for everybody, or even add exceptions. But it seems to me this is not
> the proper approach. If Mailscanner is buggy when it comes to
> international support then shouldn't this be filed as a bug instead?

Jules

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