HomeNet wrote:

> Greetings.  My apologies for posting this if this
> subject has already been covered or if this is the
> incorrect forum.  I searched the archives and used
> Google, and I have not yet found a resolution to this
> problem.

> I manage a small ISP, and I use AMaViS-new with Clamav
> and Spamassassin on Debian Sarge.  A few of my
> customers are unable to send emails with images
> (scanned or digital camera photos) because they get
> blocked by AMaViS-new.  The message bounces back to
> them (and me) with the subject "BANNED NAME
> (message/partial) FROM LOCAL <email address>."  The
> reason given in the email is "BANNED:
> message/partial."  I have asked the three clients
> about their operating systems, software, and hardware,
> and I can find nothing in common with any of them.  I
> even went to one customer's house and watched her
> insert the image into a Word document, then try to
> send it, but I didn't find anything unusual.  The
> email was rejected if the file was sent as a Word
> document, and also if it was sent as a plain JPG file.

> Does anyone know why this would be happening?  I
> checked the banned file names list in the amavisd.conf
> file, and none of the rejected files had a banned file
> extension.

> Again, please forgive me if this is the wrong place to
> post this question or if this subject has been covered
> before.  I've been researching it for several days,
> and I have not found a resolution.  Any helpful advice
> or comments will be sincerely appreciated.

> Thank you in advance.

> Cassandra

In Outlook Express (for example) they have checked:

Break apart messages larger than ...

 In Tools>accounts>mail>properties>advanced

and you are blocking the results with this
in $banned_filename_re = new_RE :

 qr'^message/partial$'i,

(which may be a good idea).

Read this:
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5041
and this:
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5YP0A0K8CM.html

Gary V


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