On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Justin Mason 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.
>
> nice results there!

Hmm, now I can't remember why I decided to strip nulls rather than reject
them when I did that part of our config two years ago. A look at today's
collection of offenders shows that they are indeed all spam and do not (as
I had thought) come from MUAs inside our network.

Thanks for pointing that out :-)

Tony.
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