I thought it was mainly the transparent proxies in AV software that choked on null bytes.
The funny thing is, since moving off the windows version of Xmail to linux, I can't say I've seen this problem come up. Harald Schneider wrote: > There are some spam mails flying around, which have nullbytes or missing > linefeeds in their message tails. This causes Outlook and many other > clients to hang. > > --Harald > > > Don Drake wrote: > >> Sorry for the delay in this email, just catching up on my email. >> >> What exactly is this resolving? Why is this a must have filter? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -Don >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Harald Schneider >> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:31 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail Broken Mailer Filter ... >> >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> Would be nice if this would go into XMail's source. I know, you don't >> like filter functionality packed into the sourcecode, but wihtout this >> it is vulnerable for this kind of DOS attack. It's a must have for every >> user, so why not deliver it with "all batteries included" ? >> >> --Harald >> >> >> Davide Libenzi wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Davide Libenzi wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This is a small&simple post-data filter to fix the "Zero byte inside the >>>> message" and the "No newline at the end of message" problems. Even though >>>> >>>> messages that comes into post-data filters, always have the ending >>>> >> newline >> >>>> (unless previous filters screw up, of course). Here is the C source code, >>>> >> and >> >>>> the Win32 pre-built EXE: >>>> >>>> http://www.xmailserver.org/xbmf.c >>>> http://www.xmailserver.org/xbmf.exe >>>> >>> Sorry, forgot the usage :) >>> >>> "PATH_TO/xbmf" "@@FILE" >>> >>> >>> >>> - Davide >>> >>> >>> > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
