On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
> Bill Michell wrote:
> > Rodrigo Severo writes:
> >
> >>
> >> I tried to rewrite a message using a modified version of the
> >> perlfilter to see what would happen and, surprise! It worked. But Mr.
> >> Sam told me that it was just good luck. I'm not sure why.
> >
> > This almost certainly has something to do with support either for
> > messages which are not pure 7-bit ASCII, or for MIME-encoded messages.
> > While it is pretty easy to rewrite ordinary test messages, anything that
> > has to cope with extended character sets or MIME has got its job cut out.
>
> AFAIU, you mean that the "new" message I write might not to be right.
> Well, if this is the only concearn, I think there is nothing to be
> worried about. If someone decides to rewrite a message, it his job to
> guarantee that the new message is right. In my case, Amavisd-new is
> going to rewrite the message, and, AFAIK, Amavisd-new knows how to
> rewrite a message ;)
Actually, it refuses to rewrite a message body (just the headers).
I think it rewrites the body internally, but it certainly refuses to
rewrite it externally; the programmers state that this is for ideological
reasons, and will not change. That's one reason that people like Anomy
Sanitizer, because it *does* rewrite messages.
:)
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