[Mimedefang] Weird MimeDefang Loop.

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Sep 9 20:44:00 EDT 2003


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:

> It could be, but both they and us were adding little attachments saying:
> action_bounce("Message contained too many MIME parts.  We do not accept
> such complicated messages.");

Nope.  action_bounce does *NOT* add an attachment.  It returns a 5xx
SMTP failure code, and that's it.

[...]

> Mimedefang says too many parts. Something adds that as an attachment (I
> had guessed it was mimedefang, but it may be TrendMicro Viruswall).

Probably.  Complain to Trend.  The whole point of "<>" as the
sender path in a bounce message is to avoid loops like you describe.

It's amazing how many large companies who should know better (Trend,
Cisco come to mind) produce completely brain-dead SMTP implementations or
"security enhancements".

Regards,

David.



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