Hi all! I'm using and helping with development of NOCC webmail (nocc.sourceforge.net).
Recently appeared a bug report that NOCC was "Unable to send messages with SpamAssassin installed". When the user try to send a message each mail gets caught with the message: "Disallowed MIME characters found in headers"! Lookin at your FAQ (at the bootom of the there's an excerpt from http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/FAQ.php), I can't get where is the problem. Either that or I don't know how to read RFCs (as the SPAMers :). Looking at RFC822, all lines are separeted with CRLF OS-independent, so the message is sent with CRLF to the MTA. After that, it should handle it properly and deliver it to its destination. Please give me some hints to solve the problem. Or even an mail address where I can sent a message with NOCC and you could get it raw. Thanks in advance. Best regards, -- Paulo Matos ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------- |Sys & Net Admin | Serviço de Informática | |Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia | Tel: +351-21-2948596 | |Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Fax: +351-21-2948548 | |P-2829-516 Caparica | e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------- --- excerpt starts here --- 15. Hey! what's this "Disallowed MIME characters found in headers" doing to <product X> messages!!!. That internal function in Qmail-Scanner blocks any MIME e-mail message that contains either NULL characters ("\0") or CR chars ("\r") in the headers. Such characters are used by viruses/trojans to bypass antivirus scanners, and the presence of this feature automatically blocks them. It also has the side effect of blocking quite a bit of SPAM - as most spammers hand-code their SPAM generators and don't know how to read RFCs. Unfortunately, some "good" e-mail generators are also broken/misconfigured and trigger the quarantine action. Typically what has happened is that a config file for the generator has been edited from within Windows [Unix uses LF "\n" to delimit end of lines, whereas Windows uses "CRLF "\r\n"], and of course, it's thrown CR chars into what should have been text-only config details. Only the "owner" of the particular e-mail generator can fix this problem. Qmail-Scanner is doing it's job. --- excerpt ends here --- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
