--On Friday, January 12, 2007 12:18 -0500 Jorey Bump <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did any users report any further corruption of what is arguably already a corrupted message? I'm not familiar with the cause of this problem, but having encountered it before, mainly with messages that have large attachments, I'm wondering if attached files might be unusable after such a scrubbing (assuming they were not encoded properly).
No. For a few years we have been refusing or rewriting messages with nulls or bare returns, so only mail at least 4 years old was involved. Many of the messages involved were 10 years old or more. Amateurish Windows-based mail-sending software is still in use that sends junk like this. From the lack of trouble reports, I think it is text parts that are mainly affected. Maybe to do encoding the software writers use standard modules that do it right. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
