[Mailman-Developers] NULL characters in e-mail.
Dan Mick
Dan Mick <Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM>
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:43:38 -0700 (PDT)
Just out of curiosity, why is this not the MTA's job?
(actually I'm really surprised it made it through the MTA unscathed)
I suppose maybe the RFC says something about it...hmm...
> Here's a fun one that I think Mailman ought to worry about.
>
> I've started getting reports of truncated digests coming out of my
> site. It always seemed to truncate after a specific user's posting in
> the digest.
>
> When I went looking, it turns out that user had a signature that
> happened to have a NULL (ascii 0) character at the end -- and that
> causes some mail clients (Netscape for one) to think it's hit EOF and
> it stops reading the message.
>
> This has a couple of implications for Mailman: it hoses digests,
> which is a big problem. And it would cause all mailman footers on
> individual messages to be missing. I'll bet (but haven't looked yet)
> that it casues problems in the archives, too.
>
> Because of this, I think Mailman needs to be sensitive to NULL
> characters and strip them from messages during processing. If they
> exist in a message, they need to be deleted.
>
> chuq
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