You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@spamassassin.apache.org by Tony Finch <do...@dotat.at> on 2007/02/06 17:38:30 UTC

Re: full rules

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > Also, I believe that a lot of legitimate messages (from Microsoft MUAs)
> > contain NULs, typically at the end of attachments. Therefore my servers
> > strip NULs rather than rejecting them. Insert usual rant about the quality
> > of standards conformance in legitimage email :-(
>
> At the end of attachments in terms of the raw or encoded version?  So far:
>
>   1.138   1.3665   0.0016    0.999   0.87    1.00  NULL_IN_BODY
>
> which works for me.  I don't think they're common in any meaningful way.

OK, maybe "a lot" was exaggerating - we see about 1 a day out of about
300,000 messages, but it's enough to cause problems :-(

Tony.
-- 
f.a.n.finch  <do...@dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
LUNDY FASTNET: EASTERLY 5 TO 7. SLIGHT OR MODERATE BECOMING ROUGH OR VERY
ROUGH. RAIN AT TIMES, SLEET LATER. MODERATE OR GOOD.