[Mimedefang] Suspicious Chars

[Chris Masters]

> > 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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