[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang apparently corrupting TeX files

[Stephen Smoogen]

I am not sure if I am remembering correctly, but I think we saw
something similar. It was either spamassassin that was causing these
changes for some reason or one of th eoptions we had in
/etc/mail/mimedefang-filter .. it was quite a while back when we were
first testing things and I didnt keep as good of notes as I thought :(.


On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 10:43, boyken at divms.uiowa.edu wrote:
> One of our users is reporting that TeX files emailed to him as attachments are
> being corrupted.  Equal signs are being replaced by characters that in hex
> notation are of the form D followed by a second apparently random hex digit. 
> The MIME type is always application/octet-stream.  The problem didn't pop up
> until we installed MIMEDefang.  The user has successfully sent the same file to
> a different email address.  So, it looks like MIMEDefang is corrupting this
> attachment.  If anyone has any idea about what might be going wrong, I'd
> appreciate some advice.  The TeX file is created by Scientific Workplace on a
> Windows PC and mailed with Outlook.  Our server software is sendmail; we had
> been using 8.12.9 when the problem appeared, and now we're running 8.12.10.  The
> server runs on HP-UX 11.11.  We have Perl 5.6.1 installed.  mimedefang.pl
> -features produces:
> 
> MIMEDefang version 2.36
> 
> IO::Socket                    : Version 1.26
> MIME::Tools                   : Version 5.411 
> MIME::Words                   : Version 5.404 
> Digest::SHA1                  : Version 2.02
> Mail::SpamAssassin            : Version 2.52
> Anomy::HTMLCleaner            : missing
> File::Scan                    : missing
> HTML::Parser                  : Version 3.26
> HTML::TokeParser              : Version 2.24
> Unix::Syslog                  : Version 0.100
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