Subj : MIME glitch in PRM?
To   : All
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Aug 18 2002 12:20 pm

Of late I've been taking the first of a number of MIME errors in Post Road 
Mailer.  They are all, as far as I can see, related to trash mail which is 
coming in from either sites which are blocked by me with my filter list, or 
from a site which sends in a message with no subject and no person shown as a 
sender.

Has there been a change in the MIME 'standard' which PRM doesn't catch?

Consider the lillies and how they grow!  Others are toiling not nor do they 
spin, I hope!

I'm using Norman's now 5.2.10 on this box.  As well as whatever it does on the 
fly with the on-access game it supposedly is doing, I also have enabled the PRM 
to use the message exit .CMD file which forces an NVCC check of the applicable 
directories for boogers.  However, in the past two months some 2000 messages, 
since I converted to Norman 5.2, it's not told me it found anything concrete.  
It did, once, tell me that a .ZIP file, since it was told to check all attached 
archives as well in my .CMD file, was of no known file type.  It then gave me 
an opportunity to do something about that file.

That ZIP file, was indeed corrupt, on later analysis and could not be 
unarchived at all when I looked at it.

So I guess Norman is working.

Or .. is it blowing away a trash infectected MIME attachment part that it 
finds, and that is why PRM's MIME is glitching?

Currious mind wants to know.


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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