I have TF installed, and whatever this problem is, it cannot be the bare
line feed problem.
-Kerry

At 05:13 PM 12/14/04 -0600, you wrote:
>Joel Rome:
>
>> I have the same problem with the Netscape mail client. And I was going
>> to ask this list about it.
>>
>> When I look at the user's mailbox on the server, there is usually a spam
>> message in his directory that appears to be malformed. Instead of the
>> header info being on separate lines, it often appears as a paragraph, as
>> it were. Then the body of the message continues after that, usually with
>> some odd characters before and within it, especially a small solid black
>> square. It's usually the square that tells me I've found the bad message.
>>
>> Once I delete that message from the server, the user can download his
>> mail again.
>>
>> I have found no easy way around this. All I can do it add the email to
>> my blacklists so it gets trashed if it comes through again.
>
>That sounds like the bare LF problem that's well known to cause troubles
>with clients. There are various plugins that block that sort of stuff,
>including both versions of Trash Finder (see
>http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/tf/tf-main.html).
>
>There's a lot of malformed spam out there; you no longer have any choice but
>to block a lot of it at the mail server. The time when you could let
>anything through your server is long past, I fear.
>
>                     Randy.
>
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