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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mental Core Dump: Virus Scanning from a system filter revisited
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:00:27 +0100, Phil Pennock
<Phil.Pennock@???> wrote:
>On 2000-11-18 at 12:01 +0100, Marc Haber gifted us with:
>> >as well as
>> >have pre-fixup -- remember that one of the MUAs being protected
>> >(MS Outlook) doesn't need a Content-Type: header.
>>
>> Doesn't uudecoding the message solve this?
>
>How?


uudecode strips trailing and leading garbage, so a single uuencoded
file can be extracted by simply calling uudecode on the message. This
doesn't take care of multiple uuencoded files in a single message. One
needs to be careful with that.

>Or are you using some specific email-based tool which converts uuencoded
>stuff to MIME and repairs everything?


Not that I am aware of.

Greetings
Marc

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