Re: No body emails and Norton antivirus

[<lwalcher () sterling edu>]

In-Reply-To: <20040925222930.GA2041 () commedia it>

This is a Norton issue that goes way back:

http://www.c4.net/Index.cfm?Method=NewsStories.NewsStory&NewsStory_ID=229

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;813514

Hope this helps,
Luke Walcher
Systems Admin
Sterling College Campus Computing
http://www.sterling.edu

> Hello,
>  we're getting reports from our customers about 
> Outlook + Norton Antivirus crashing on certain messages. 
> We tryed to track the problem down, and it seems like that
> emails without body and without the \n separating the body
> from the headers crashes them. We had not the time to track
> the problem down any further, but can anybody confirm this?
> Many mail servers accept mails ``without body''.
>  We couldn't reproduce it on _all_ platforms, but we
> experienced the problem on many installations.
>
>  You can generate a simple test case by sending a 
> message to your account using something like:
>
> telnet mail 25
> ...
> rcpt to: ...
> data
> From: foo () bar org
> To: myaccount () test com
> Subject: test email
> .
> quit
>
>  Please make sure the MDA on your server does not
> automatically insert a \n after the headers (Subject
> should be on the last line -- I think spamassassin, 
> procmail and many others do this...).
>
> Thanks for any replay,
> Cheers,
> zero