Re: attachment stripped

Hallo Eric,

can you send me the email in question?


Cheers,

Stevan

-------- Original message --------
From: Eric Broch <[email protected]> 
Date:30/08/2014  19:25  (GMT+01:00) 
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [Dspam-user] attachment stripped 

On 8/30/2014 10:50 AM, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
On 30-08-14 16:58, 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.

It would also be interesting to what 'dspam --client' does with this
email.

> 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.

There have been reports on problems with dot stuffing in the past.
It's a lot more logical that you're seeing those problems too, and not
something related to your attachment.


> 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 Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

The following command:
# cat 'email' | dspam --client --user user@domain --stdout --deliver=innocent,spam
also truncates the email.

Eric
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