[Mimedefang] Suspicious Chars

Nels Lindquist nlindq at maei.ca
Fri Sep 3 13:15:28 EDT 2004


On 3 Sep 2004 at 8:19, Chris Masters wrote:

> Is there any reason why MIMEDefang shouldn't process
> mails that have SuspiciousCharsInHeaders or
> SuspiciousCharsInBody seeing that it uses MIME parsing
> tools?

Not to my knowledge.
 
> We have genuine mail generated by buggy client or sent
> through buggy servers that needs to be quarantined
> rather than dropped but would like to filter out
> obvious spam (by far the majority as you would
> expect)from this lot prior to quarantining.

I had the same problem.  Just move the code block starting with "if 
($SuspiciousCharsInHeaders) {" to after your spamassassin processing 
section.  In my case that meant relocating it to filter_end rather 
than filter_begin.

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Nels Lindquist <*>
Information Systems Manager
Morningstar Air Express Inc.



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