[Mimedefang] foreign characters in message body causing bizarre behavior

[Thomas B. Butler]

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.
>
> Jon
> --
> Jon R. Kibler
> Chief Technical Officer
> A.S.E.T., Inc.
> Charleston, SC  USA
> (843) 849-8214

Jon,

This appears to have been the case.  The mixed-up messages appear normal
when viewed in Mozilla Mail, so it's obviously an MUA problem.

Thanks.
--
--Tom
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