Actually Symantec's default action is to drop the email. Which is why I turned 
that off, I was missing about half the emails on this list at the time. I 
currently have it set to just modify the subject to say it wasn't scanned. That 
way if I see it on a message that is not on this list (I have on a few in my 
junk email) I know to not open it.

I guess one of my questions is what is it supposed to do? Use the first 
Content-Transfer-Encoding, the last one, or try each of them? What is the mail 
client supposed to do? If there is an attachment, non-virus, that I want if it 
picks the wrong encoding it will trash the attachment wouldn't it?

Phillip



From: Davide Libenzi
Sent: Thu 1/18/2007 9:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [xmail] Re: Is this a problem, and if so where is it from


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Phillip R. Shaw wrote:

> 
> I am getting emails through the xmail list which Symantec's SMS SMTP
> gateway are flagging as un-scannable. I saw this a year ago and just
> turned off the warning but this time I think I found a pattern.

If that's the case, Symantec sux! :D
Think about it. I can embed a virus inside such properly crafted message 
and let it go though the scanning gateway. Now, the MUA is likely going to 
open it, and kaboom. Not good ;)


- Davide


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