30.05.2013 14:38, Simon Loewenthal kirjoitti: > > Hi there, > > The SA custom rulesets page refers to /MIME validation/ ruleset. This > is a small .cf file. I am interested in this rule: > > # ASCII-0 can crash mail clients. This is an absolute NO! > rawbody MIME_ASCII0 /\0/ > describe MIME_ASCII0 Message body contains ASCII-0 character > score MIME_ASCII0 1.5 > > > Does anyone know why this char should crash an email client? I did google a > little for ASCII charsets and this char, but I could not see how this might > cause a crash. I wonder if this is not caused by badly coded email client > implementations? > > Perhaps I am showing off my noob-ness :) > > Thanks! > Simon At least is a string terminator in C language library and most apps coded with it. May cause indefined behaviour.
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