[Mimedefang] Weird MimeDefang Loop.

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:

>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.

Will do so. Thanks so much for clearing this up for me... 


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