Hello,
today my mail server (Exim) was almost killed by a series of
message/partial messages to one of my clients' mailbox. From the inside,
it looks like a 5 megabyte blob of base64 data, I haven't tried to
decode it in raw. Since it is a partial message only, I guess one part
of the whole c
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:34:55PM +0200, Yves Goergen wrote:
> But what's a mail scanner/filter supposed to do with a partial message
> anyway? I mean, it can only reject it by policy or let it pass. There's
> nothing to tell about the actual message contents, is there?
Not really, you'd have t
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
IMO, I'd drop them by policy since I agree that I've never seen it used
legitimately.
+1
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At 11:34 04-04-2008, Yves Goergen wrote:
today my mail server (Exim) was almost killed by a series of
message/partial messages to one of my clients' mailbox. From the
inside, it looks like a 5 megabyte blob of base64 data, I haven't
tried to decode it in raw. Since it is a partial message only,
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> Yves Goergen wrote:
> > But what's a mail scanner/filter supposed to do with a partial message
> > anyway? I mean, it can only reject it by policy or let it pass. There's
> > nothing to tell about the actual message contents, is there?
>
> Not really, you'd have to wait
On Friday 04 April 2008 21:45:11 SM wrote:
> MS Outlook and a few other MUAs support it. There's an option to
> split a message into several parts. [...] It's a useful feature
> if you want to get around message size limits to send attachments.
> It can also be handy when there's poor connectivity
The filtering-side bad news is that (as noted) the filter can't
do much about parsing it, and what is worse for SpamAssassin
Well, since the part order is recognizable the first part should be parsable
for up to its length, which is likely to be large. Since there is already
talk (if not actu
