On 6 Dec 2002, Rene Schumann wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I use exim 3.35 and yesterday i got a mail with a base64 coded body that
> had one 15kbyte Line as the last line.
> Base64 lines should not be longer than 76 chars.
> It let spamassassin 2.43 hang because of a very "expensiv" pattern
> matching rule.
> Why did exim accept this Mail?
Because exim doesn't read the body - it just passes it straight through,
being careful not to destroy the top bit (a feature not necessary with
a base64 coded body I'll admit).
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
