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

[Chuq Von Rospach]

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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