There are some spam mails flying around, which have nullbytes or missing linefeeds in their message tails. This causes Outlook and many other clients to hang.
--Harald Don Drake wrote: > Sorry for the delay in this email, just catching up on my email. > > What exactly is this resolving? Why is this a must have filter? > > Thanks. > > -Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Harald Schneider > Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:31 AM > To: xmail@xmailserver.org > Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail Broken Mailer Filter ... > > > Thanks a lot! > > Would be nice if this would go into XMail's source. I know, you don't > like filter functionality packed into the sourcecode, but wihtout this > it is vulnerable for this kind of DOS attack. It's a must have for every > user, so why not deliver it with "all batteries included" ? > > --Harald > > > Davide Libenzi wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Davide Libenzi wrote: >> >>> This is a small&simple post-data filter to fix the "Zero byte inside the >>> message" and the "No newline at the end of message" problems. Even though > >>> messages that comes into post-data filters, always have the ending > newline >>> (unless previous filters screw up, of course). Here is the C source code, > and >>> the Win32 pre-built EXE: >>> >>> http://www.xmailserver.org/xbmf.c >>> http://www.xmailserver.org/xbmf.exe >> Sorry, forgot the usage :) >> >> "PATH_TO/xbmf" "@@FILE" >> >> >> >> - Davide >> >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
