Archive-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:29:28 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 02:29:21 -0500 From: Brian Hechinger Reply-To: MX-List@MadGoat.com To: MX-List@MadGoat.com Subject: Re: MIME Messages Message-ID: <20060202072921.GC24747@wiggum.4amlunch.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:45:22AM -0700, Porter, Allen wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks for your comment. We already have the defanger running on our > main mail servers. > > But I don't think it would be an answer here. It would still leave all > the headers and other decorations to confuse MX. > > This issue has become severe enough (we have over 3,000 lists) that we > simply are going to have to move away from MX. hmmm, It's a shame that you would need to abandon MX, is there no change of writing some sort of filter that's able to clean out the stuff that confuses MX? -brian -- "The reason I don't use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? Here's a hint: it's not the small and fast one." --Linus ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:24:20 -0800 Sender: maulis@ludens.elte.hu Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:22:08 +0100 From: Maulis Adam Reply-To: MX-List@MadGoat.com To: MX-List@MadGoat.com Message-ID: <00A50BAE.0A7BE58A.16@ludens.elte.hu> Subject: Re: MIME Messages Hi, > hmmm, It's a shame that you would need to abandon MX, is there no change of > writing some sort of filter that's able to clean out the stuff that confuses > MX? when a brain-damaged clients send plain ascii text in base64 encoded html message? This won't be a sort of filter. > -brian Adam Maulis ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 19:57:22 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:57:18 -0500 From: Brian Hechinger Reply-To: MX-List@MadGoat.com To: MX-List@MadGoat.com Subject: Re: MIME Messages Message-ID: <20060203035718.GB15072@wiggum.4amlunch.net> References: <00A50BAE.0A7BE58A.16@ludens.elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <00A50BAE.0A7BE58A.16@ludens.elte.hu> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:22:08PM +0100, Maulis Adam wrote: > Hi, > > > hmmm, It's a shame that you would need to abandon MX, is there no change of > > writing some sort of filter that's able to clean out the stuff that confuses > > MX? > > when a brain-damaged clients send plain ascii text in base64 encoded > html message? > > This won't be a sort of filter. Hmm, well, then I'm fresh out of ideas. ;) -brian -- "The reason I don't use Gnome: every single other window manager I know of is very powerfully extensible, where you can switch actions to different mouse buttons. Guess which one is not, because it might confuse the poor users? Here's a hint: it's not the small and fast one." --Linus