Hello,
today my mail server (Exim) was almost killed by a series of
message/partial messages to one of my clients' mailbox. From the inside,
it looks like a 5 megabyte blob of base64 data, I haven't tried to
decode it in raw. Since it is a partial message only, I guess one part
of the whole can't be used to say anything about the entire message.
This is the first time in my life that I have seen the message/partial
content-type. And the RFC number it appeared in was fairly low, so it
must be an older standard. I'm wondering what MUA supports this, I have
never seen such an option at the GUI surface.
I forgot to enable a previously configured option to not send messages
bigger than 1 MB to SpamAssassin. Now this is enabled again. Also, I
finally upgraded from SA 3.1.8 to the current version.
But what's a mail scanner/filter supposed to do with a partial message
anyway? I mean, it can only reject it by policy or let it pass. There's
nothing to tell about the actual message contents, is there?
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Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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