From: Kris Deugau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Andersen wrote:
Mailscanner
... or any other mail-handling software...
has no business changing content.
... unless you explicitly configure it to do so. (ATTN: AVG for
Windows POP3/SMTP interface/hook authors, This Means You! Among others.)
John Andersen wrote:
Mailscanner
... or any other mail-handling software...
has no business changing content.
... unless you explicitly configure it to do so. (ATTN: AVG for
Windows POP3/SMTP interface/hook authors, This Means You! Among others.)
-kgd
Rick Cooper wrote:
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To: Rick Cooper
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Discourage broken content
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Rick Cooper wrote
Anthony Peacock writes:
Rick Cooper wrote:
From: decoder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:23 PM
To: Rick Cooper
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Discourage broken content
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Rick Cooper wrote
Justin Mason wrote:
Anthony Peacock writes:
Rick Cooper wrote:
From: decoder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:23 PM
To: Rick Cooper
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Discourage broken content
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Rick Cooper
--On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:41 AM +0100 Anthony Peacock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This issue is currently being discussed on the MailScanner users list,
under the Subject Max SpamAssassin Size problems.
Which can be found here:
http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/
--On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:58 AM +0100 Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm sure they know this -- but there are dangers there too. It's pretty
trivial in HTML to craft a MIME part that contains 100 KB of
innocent-looking HTML, followed by 4 KB of spam payload, where the payload
is
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I converted it with IrfanView and the
second time with PaintShop Pro. Both GIF files had the result
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture
into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I converted it with IrfanView and
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:20, Kenneth Porter wrote:
We need to stop giving a free pass to broken content creation software just
because it's popular. When someone sends you broken content, you should
react the same way you would if they sent you documents on dirt-smeared
paper. Stop letting
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:24, decoder wrote:
I've heard that it truncates the mail at 30kb, no matter if that is
within a MIME block or not... So my plugin gets a broken image..
though it was not broken originally...
How better to get that fixed than to put them on notice, and
start tagging
From: decoder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Discourage broken content
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:24:14 +0200
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
I think we should discourage all broken content in email and on the
web.
But who is to decide what is broken. Just because
giftext/giffix/gocr/etc. fail to parse it, doesn't necessarily mean it's
broken. The software may be buggy (note the patches on the download
page needed to make these
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:33, Kash, Howard (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
I think we should discourage all broken content in email and on the
web.
But who is to decide what is broken. Just because
giftext/giffix/gocr/etc. fail to parse it, doesn't necessarily mean it's
broken.
Yes, by
Yes, by definition, it DOES mean its broken.
So when then giftext author made an error in assuming every image would
have a global colormap, he redefined the GIF specification so that any
that don't are no longer valid?
Howard
On 25-Aug-06, at 3:20 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
online.de wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture
into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I converted it with IrfanView and the
second
Could somebody explain to me the reason why MailScanner acts this way?
A good question could be decide if you adapt this plugin to be
compatible
with MailScanner or tha last one should change this practice.
As a resource/denial of service protection mechanism. If someone starts
feeding you
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, enediel gonzalez wrote:
From: decoder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kenneth Porter wrote:
I completely agree, the problem is, some implementations makes this
impossible. For example MailScanner.
I've heard that it truncates the mail at 30kb, no matter if that is
within a MIME block
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Logan Shaw wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, enediel gonzalez wrote:
From: decoder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth Porter wrote:
I completely agree, the problem is, some implementations makes
this impossible. For example MailScanner.
I've heard that it
On Friday 25 August 2006 11:40, Kash, Howard (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
Yes, by definition, it DOES mean its broken.
So when then giftext author made an error in assuming every image would
have a global colormap, he redefined the GIF specification so that any
that don't are no longer valid?
One
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Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM
On Friday 25 August 2006 12:10, Rick Cooper wrote:
That is patently false. I have a graphics design/advertising department at
one of my locations and these fellas send huge graphics files back and
forth when they have emergency proofs/changes and MailScanner has *never*
damaged anything, ever,
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Rick Cooper wrote:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:24
PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Discourage
broken content
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From: John Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:20 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Discourage broken content
On Friday 25 August 2006 12:10, Rick Cooper wrote:
That is patently false. I have a graphics design
From: Gino Cerullo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25-Aug-06, at 3:20 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, August 25, 2006 12:05 AM -0700 Plenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
online.de wrote:
I disagree. To check out what happens I converted a JPG picture
into a GIF
file
and sent it to myself. One time I
I think we should discourage all broken content in email and on the
web.
At one time we could assume that broken content was an honest
mistake and make an attempt at fixing it. But with the rise of
malicious content attempting to exploit bugs in content handlers
(like overruns in
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