Re: attachment stripped

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 08:58:03AM -0600, Eric Broch wrote:
> On 4/28/2014 9:50 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On 04/28/14 11:18, Eric Broch wrote:
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> I installed DSPAM on a server and recently attachments are being
> >> stripped from email. At present I haven't been able to track down the
> >> source of this problem. I don't think it is the case that DSPAM would
> >> strip anything out of an email but wanted to ask on this list if this is
> >> a possibility.
> > DSpam does not strip attachments.  That's not its job.  Something else
> > is doing it.
> >
> >
> Phil (and others),
> 
> I know this has been a while, but DSPAM (dspamc), I'm pretty sure, is
> the culprit.
> 
> I have a test email from one of my clients that was truncated when DSPAM
> was enabled and not-truncated when DSPAM was disabled.
> I pulled this email (the pristine one) over to a test machine and ran
> the following 2 commands on this test email, the difference being one
> command calls 'dspamc' and the other calls 'dspam.'
> 
> 1) # cat 'email' | dspamc --user user@domain --stdout
> --deliver=innocent,spam
> 2) # cat 'email' | dspam --user user@domain --stdout --deliver=innocent,spam
> 
> The first command truncated the email output, and the second did not.
> 
> My conclusion is that there is something wrong with 'dspamc' though I
> could be wrong.
> 
> I also noted that it was NOT stripping attachments but truncating the
> message in the body of the email specifically on a '.' (period) on a
> line by itself in the 'mark up' portion of the email.
> 
> I'm going to grab another email culprit and test it to see if the
> problem is consistent.
> 
> I know that the DSPAM project is supposed to be KO'ed but I know there
> are people still using it.
> 
> Eric
> 

Hi Eric,

What version of DSPAM are you running?

Regards,
Ken

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