[Mimedefang] TestVirus.org

WBrown at e1b.org WBrown at e1b.org
Fri Jul 30 11:58:46 EDT 2004


mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 07/30/2004 10:50:50 
AM:

> As I wrote before many times, I have no intention of making MIMEDefang
> "bug-for-bug" compatible with various buggy MUAs.  If you're really
> concerned about this thing, the *ONLY* sane response is to canonicalize
> every single message coming into your system by using
> action_rebuild().  This will ensure that every message handed off by
> MIMEDefang is a well-formed MIME message, and should reduce the
> likelihood of misinterpretation by buggy MUAs.

How bad would the performance hit be to do the action_rebuild on every 
message?

It seems that forcing all traffic into accecpt normal forms would be 
something desirable if the price isn't unreasonable.



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