Russian KOI8-R from GMail users blocked

[Martin Hepworth]

What version of mailScanner are you using?

this sounds like an issue that was fixed along time ago by using "file -i"
rather the "file" to get the mime type.

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Martin Hepworth, CISSP
Oxford, UK


On 8 June 2012 09:41, Joolee <mailscanner at joolee.nl> wrote:

> I found out that it's just the file command and especially my magic file
> that identifies the E-mails as executable.
>
> root at giselle:/usr/share/file# /usr/bin/file
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20120608/BF8292586.AA876/msg-14738-61.txt
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20120608/BF8292586.AA876/msg-14738-61.txt:
> DOS executable (COM)
>
> My file version is 5.04 (newest in Ubuntu repo but there are newer ones in
> ftp.astron.com) but I can't find out where I can get the newest magic.mgc
> file. The files on the ftp server have to be compiled first.
>
>
> On 8 June 2012 10:01, Andrew Colin Kissa <andrew at topdog.za.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08 Jun 2012, at 9:20 AM, Joolee wrote:
>>
>> > The E-mails itself are valid E-mails from Russian GMail users that are
>> encoded with the KOI8-R encoding.. I can send a sample off list if anyone
>> is interested.
>>
>> Send me the sample i will investigate.
>>
>> - Andrew
>>
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