The mail was generated by cfx_imsmail, with the body content taken from a
Word document saved as HTML, parsed by ColdFusion into a database and from
there into a text only string variable.
Looking on the Macromedia Forums it appears that CF uses ascii nulls
internally to terminate string variables, and indeed the following test
seems to bear this out:
<cfscript>
mystring = "testtest";
hasnull = "no";
if(find(chr(0),mystring))
hasnull = "yes";
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>Has null? #hasnull#</cfoutput>
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to remove these characters, as
the following code
mystring = replace(mystring, chr(0),"all");
returns the error
Parameter 2 of function Replace which is now "" must be a non-empty
string
I know it's outside the scope of the list, but if anyone knows anything more
about this I'd be interested to know of any solutions.
Thanks
Jeremy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 21 January 2003 14:14
> To: inFusion Support List
> Subject: Re: [iMS] Null characters
>
>
> A NULL is an ASCII 0. Somehow, the email contained a NULL
> and was rejected by the other server. How was the mail
> generated? I've heard of some broken email clients creating
> mails with embedded NULLs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Howie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Halliwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:24 AM
> Subject: [iMS] Null characters
>
>
> > What are nul (null?) characters in the context of SMTP
> >
> > ... while talking to localhost:
> > >>> DATA
> > <<< 524 5.6.0 message contains NUL characters
> > 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Remote protocol error
> >
> > Jeremy
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