[Mimedefang] foreign characters in message body causing bizarre behavior

Thomas B. Butler butlert at nevada.edu
Fri Mar 12 12:02:39 EST 2004


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote:

> "Thomas B. Butler" wrote:
> >
> > Solaris 8.
>
> > Sometimes (but not always) when we receive SPAM in foreign character sets
> > (maybe just Russian and Chinese?), the message contents get mixed in with
> > other lines from other messages.
>
> We have seen problems on older versions of Solaris where a spammer forges
> the Content-Length: header and this causes 2 mail messages to get intermingled
> when they are retrieved by some MUAs(mail, mailx, pine) and some POP versions.
> Don't recall having seen it on Solaris 8 and I know we haven't seen it on
> Solaris 9.
>
> Don't know if this could be related.

I am using Pine as my MUA.  I'll ask my coworker who's using exmh if he's
seeing the same problem.

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