On 29 Mar 2001, at 9:15, Gordon Rowell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:31:15PM -0500, Dean Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote: > [...] > And \ is an invalid character for our system. So what
> ever is between > them gets dropped. We are actually looking for
> "/BC=[" (no quotes) as > the string to signify that there is a billing
> code that follows. So > if it sees "/BC=\[" it gets ignored.
>
> OK - I'll look again soon.
Thanks - Let me know when you have a new test version of the obtuse-
smtpd ready. I have a test bed I can play with so I'm ready when you
are.
>
> > Just out of curiosity, do you know why obtuse smtp does this?
> > Sendmail and qmail in 4.0.1 has no trouble with this.
>
> It does it to proect sendmail from the various content based attacks
> which have happened over the years due to bugs in sendmail. They
> aren't needed for qmail, and we're looking into make it less invasive.
>
Glad to hear it... In a perfect world I could probably talk my
programers in to changing the way we parse the message, but they
wrote the software based on Sendmail and (Because that's what our
head developer knew) they feel that the mail sever should not be
changing things.
(I'm working on him... I get to choose the MTA software, so if I just
pull the plug on Sendmail he won't have a choice. But he is a good
friend of mine, so I won't do that to him, just yet... I'll try to
make him think he re-wrote his software because he wanted to not
because I made him)
Dean
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