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[Bug 5797] New: Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
Summary: Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
Product: Spamassassin
Version: 3.2.4
Platform: PC
OS/Version: OpenVMS
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: spamassassin
AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
ReportedBy: mbradley@amurcorp.com
When we receive mail from blackberry senders, it changes the mail body to
random characters.
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[Bug 5797] Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From felicity@apache.org 2008-01-23 12:56 -------
We need the original "as seen by SA" mails. 4245 looks like saved messages from the MUA which isn't
useful.
Also, how are you calling SA?
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[Bug 5797] Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From mbradley@amurcorp.com 2008-01-23 11:31 -------
Created an attachment (id=4245)
--> (http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/attachment.cgi?id=4245&action=view)
txt file of before and after SA
Here is a text version of the mail. Of course we use outlook here to view
emails so some of the "characters" will not translate to ascci. But, most of
the conversion is there (toward the bottom of the email).
I am not the only site using SA to experience this NEW problem. Frugal
Brothers Software in Indiana is experiencing the same thing. Just with
Blackberry mail though same as here.
Mike Bradley
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[Bug 5797] Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
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http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From felicity@apache.org 2008-01-23 10:58 -------
Hi,
IMO, it's unlikely this is an SA issue, since SA doesn't modify the message content, but ... Can you upload
a pre-SA message and post-SA message showing the problem, in text/plain format (4244 is a word doc)?
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[Bug 5797] Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From mbradley@amurcorp.com 2008-01-24 03:24 -------
We have been postulating that the problem may actually be in the Postfix
program which is not really a part of SA. The strange part is that we have
seen evidence that even when we receive a forwarded mail that contains a
blackberry message, the blackberry part is garbled but the rest of the non
blackberry message is fine. ???? The impression is that it is the SA that is
causing the problem and that IS a problem for SA.
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http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From sidney@sidney.com 2008-01-23 14:50 -------
Here is how to get the full text of the email in a form that might help us, if
you are using Outlook:
1. Click on (highlight) the message title line (not the preview window).
2. Click on "File."
3. Click on "Properties."
4. Click the "Details" tab.
Copy and paste that into a text file and attach that to this bug report.
That still is unlikely to be enough information, but at least it will give us a
start at seeing what the problem really looks like. What we really need is the
raw source of the mail before SpamAssassin ever ses it, and right after
SpamAssassin has processed it. To get that information you will probably have to
talk to someone in your IT who understands how your mail server is set up to
receive mail and how it invokes SpamAssassin.
SpamAssassin does not process the mail all by itself. You have something that
receives mail, sends it through SpamAssassin, then sends the processed result on
to your mailbox. For example, if you have an Exchange server, you might be
running Exchange SpamAssassin Sink to process emails through SpamAssassin.
In order to be able to figure out if your problem is with SpamAssassin or has
something to do with the way you are processing mail to get it through
SpamAssassin we need to know what kind of mail server you are using and how it
is running SpamAssassin.
We also need to see what the Blackberry email looks like, with all of its
headers intact, before it is run through SpamAssassin and after it is run
through SpamAssassin.
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[Bug 5797] Received Blackberry Mail changed to random characters
Posted by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org.
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From mkettler_sa@verizon.net 2008-01-24 19:41 -------
For future reference, when using MailScanner, SpamAssassin never touches the
copy of the message that gets delivered to your mailbox. MailScanner calls SA to
generate scores, but then performs its own markups on the original message.
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mbradley@amurcorp.com changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
------- Additional Comments From mbradley@amurcorp.com 2008-01-24 19:26 -------
The bug is not with SA but with the postfix part of mailscanner. My supplier
is re-inventing his appliance to fix the issue. Thanks for your responses.
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http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From mbradley@amurcorp.com 2008-01-23 09:19 -------
Created an attachment (id=4244)
--> (http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/attachment.cgi?id=4244&action=view)
blackberry message example
This is an example of what mail from blackberry senders looks like.
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http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5797
------- Additional Comments From Mark.Martinec@ijs.si 2008-01-24 03:51 -------
> We have been postulating that the problem may actually be in the Postfix
> program which is not really a part of SA. The strange part is that we have
> seen evidence that even when we receive a forwarded mail that contains a
> blackberry message, the blackberry part is garbled but the rest of the non
> blackberry message is fine. ???? The impression is that it is the SA that is
> causing the problem and that IS a problem for SA.
You still haven't answered how you are calling SpamAssassin.
Without seeing evidence (raw message before it reaches SA, and afterwards),
there is not much we can do here to help. If messages are coming in
through Postfix, and you spot such message still in a MTA queue (e.g. by
stalling content filtering), you may use a 'postcat -q queueid >0.msg'
command to obtain a readable raw copy of a message.
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