[Mimedefang] uuencoded messages kill my mimedefang slaves {Scanned by Allteks Mailsafe}

[Mark Costlow]

> > So something is still wrong after decode_it() finishes.  At his
> > point I decided to try avoiding the uudecoder altogether and added
> > a filter_create_parser() with $parser->extract_uuencode(0) (instead
> > of the default extract_uuencode(1)).  That is working around the
> > problem successfully.
> > 
> > This works for me for now since I'm only doing the recipient check in
> > Mimedefang and don't need the bodies decoded.  But I'm planning to
> > use Mimedefang for content filtering bodies in the future, so I'll need
> > to resove this problem first.
> > 
> > I haven't tracked down where decode_it() is being invoked.  Does anyone
> > have
> > any idea where that is?  Any other pointers?
> 
> Hi Mark
> 
> Im suffering from the same problem, any chance you could expand on your work
> around? Im only using mimedefang to check for valid recipients, where do I
> set the $parser->extract_uuencode(0) do I just create a
> 
> Sub filter_create_parser () {
>  my $parser = MIME::Parser->new();
>  $parser->extract_uuencode(0);
> }
> 
> within my mimedefang-filter?

Sorry for the delay getting back to you.  Here's the whole function I added
to my mimedefang-filter:

sub filter_create_parser () {
  my $parser = MIME::Parser->new();
  $parser->extract_nested_messages(1);
  $parser->extract_uuencode(0);
  $parser->output_to_core(0);
  $parser->tmp_to_core(0);
  return $parser;
}

If you don't have a filter_create_parser() function, one gets created
for you which does exactly the above (except with extract_uuencode(1)).
I believe you need all the other function calls there in order for
mimedefang to do its thing (i.e. it can't contain *only* the
extract_uuencode(0) call).

Let me know if that doesn't work.  Thanks,

Mark
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