[Mimedefang] Invalid "mimedefang.pl -structure" output and virus scanning behaviour

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Since the typical reason for running MimeDefang is to protect the
> MUA's, the safe approach would seem to be to always split with
> your best-guess about the malformed MIME, then reassemble the
> parts with correct MIME headers for the way you guessed.

Which is exactly what I recommended.  action_rebuild() does this.
However, it does break certain MIME messages produced by marginal
software, and it does user more CPU time and disk I/O, which is a concern
on a busy server.

--
David.