[Mimedefang] Suspicious Chars
Chris Masters
rotis23 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 4 04:07:42 EDT 2004
> > 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.
>
> In over 219,000 messages, I have only 15 that got
> dropped due to the
> "suspicious characters" check, so I don't think that
> you really need to
> do other checks before quarantining...you won't have
> that many to look
> through.
Just checked last hour an I got 11 in 7000 had
suspicious chars. It's not the number of checks that's
a problem - it's whether the MIME parsing
functionality of MIMEDefang could be vulnerable like
certain email clients.
I assume it's not but I would rather know given the
potential risk.
Chris
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