I would love to just add headers -- it is so much cleaner (and the !DSPAM... in replies annoy me.)
But the reality is that messages need to be forwarded in a heterogeneous environment. One thought I had last night: would it be possible to just add another part to the MIME message? Adding a single text/plain with the DSPAM signature seems to be much safer than rewriting the bodies of the existing parts. As far as I know, DSPAM only needs to see one signature in order to process the message. In essence, this is like adding headers to the message -- you're not messing with the original data -- only adding to it. I'm no MIME expert, so maybe this is more dangerous/complicated than I'm making it out to be. -ch > > > John Peacock wrote: >> Stuart Auchterlonie wrote: >>> Which is in IMHO worse. The message should be passed through unchanged >>> apart from the addition of headers and/or signature. >> >> But you cannot add a signature without altering the e-mail message body >> itself. And that goes for either appending the signature to a >> plain/text message or adding a second attachment with the signature. >> Either way, you wind up rewriting the message body somehow, and that is >> just a recipe for disaster (as the OP knows all too well). >> > > I totally agree with you. Adding a few headers is fine. > > The thing that concerns me is that the message body is being > modified. Anything that comes through a Surfcontrol mail filter > has extra new lines embedded in it. Before i stated using DSPAM > i'd see these new lines in my client, messages passed through DSPAM > no longer show these. So there are things going on there that aren't > quite right. > > > Stuart > >
