Re: [xmca] Empty Message Bodies

Just a test, /please ignore./

K.

Kevin Rocap wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Yes, I've had this problem a couple of times. When I e-mail from my
> mail client (Thunderbird) I'm prompted to send as HTML only, HTML and
> Text or Text Only. When I've sent as HTML it goes through blank, so
> I've taken to sending as Text Only. I haven't tested with HTML and
> Text to see what happens, but may just do that right now (after this
> message). So please excuse a test. ;-)
>
> In Peace,
> K.
>
> Bruce Jones wrote:
>> Recently we've seen a few messages with no body. The header is there
>> but
>> the text is not. It appears that some mail gateways are now stripping
>> off message bodies if they appear to contain spam or viruses.
>>
>> As the crackers rachet up their efforts to install viruses via email
>> messages we can expect the number of hosts that autuomatically strip
>> such messages to increase.
>>
>> This is particularly a problem for mail programs (clients) like Outlook
>> and MS Exchange that send, by default, base64 messages instead of
>> plain (ascii) text messages. The body of such a message looks like
>> a block of random characters, which is what many virus attachments
>> look like as well.
>>
>> Whether or not you use Micro$oft's products, you might want to check
>> your outgoing mail configuration and set your client so that it sends
>> plain text messages. The gateways that strip off such text aren't
>> the only ones out there who have a problem with base64 text.
>> bj
>>
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Received on Wed Aug 15 10:37 PDT 2007