[Mailman-Developers] NULL characters in e-mail.

[Dan Mick]

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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