On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Michael Volk wrote:
> qmail-scan detects mails with the carriage return (CR) character in the
> username and quarantines them with the remark "Illegal MIME characters found
> in headers" and sends a notice-mail to the mail administrator and to the
> original sender. But these mails still contain the CR (see below).
> 
> When I retrieve my mails (I am the mail admin and I forward the mails which
> are sent to the mail-admin to my local account) via Outlook Express (5.5) I
> get an error because of this CR. If I delete the CR manually from the mail
> file on the server I can retrieve the mails without any problems.
> 

Sigh - I knew this was going to happen...

[from CHANGES]

"Quarantine alert messages now contain ALL headers. Will need to keep an eye
on this when Q-S introduces body-scanning. You could get an infinite
loop..."

I guess I'll have to strip out such chars before generating the alert. I
don't like that as it's yet another dependency I have to track :-(

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1


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