[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote on Friday, May 27, 2005 2:58 AM:

> On Thu, 26 May 2005, John Kielkopf wrote:
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>> Have a strange problem here.
>>=20
>> Users that have Norton Internet Security or Mcafee "Spam Killer"
>> active have trouble with mail clogging up their systems from time to
>> time. Disabling the products lets them receive the mail.
>>=20
>> Although these users complain that they never had these problems with
>> any other mail server, this doesn't seem to be an Xmail server
>>  problem. However, I'm wondering if any of you have come up with a
>> good solution, other than telling the users to disable these
>> products, of filtering mail that's causing these problems, and/or
>> what exactly it is about these messages that creates this problem.
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>> Here is an example of one of the messages, pulled directly from the
>> mailbox and zipped: http://207.67.28.206/bademail.zip
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> It's a badly formatted MIME message (there's a '\0' towards
> the end of the
> message). Probably this confuses the heck out of the two junk
> software you mentioned.
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> /me hides from MFE revenge

Yes, Norton AntiSpam (Symantec crap ;) ) has this null-byte problem but
they don't seem to care about it. Maybe other MTAs do filter nullbytes?

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