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Re: [milter-greylist] spamd checks hang when message contains

2010-06-21 by Petar Bogdanovic

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:46:17PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
> in my logfiles.  After analyzing the related network traffic, all these
> messages have in common that they contain an ASCII \0 in their bodies.
> This character is allowed by RFC 822 (but not in 2822 + 5322).

While it's a bit unclean that the spamd part of milter-greylist can't
handle a null character, it's also not likely that I'll ever think a
null character belongs to an SMTP conversation.

If you're running Postfix, you could add '\0' to

	message_reject_characters

		Petar Bogdanovic

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