On 2003-04-29, 18:00:24 (+0200), Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
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> Hi,
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> First, let's start with a true "thank you" to sanitizer author!! :-)))
You're welcome. :)
> I've got a problem with some pdf attachments.
Yes, this is a known issue. For some reason some mail clients
decide to use QP encoding for PDF attachments, even though QP
encoding is invalid for any sort of binary data because of
ambiguities in the QP standard.
Basically, if you encode something with QP, there's no guarantee
that it will be byte-for-byte the same when it's decoded. This is
what is happening with the sanitizer - the sanitizer operates as a
filter, and as such will first decode the attachment on the way in
and then re-encode it on the way out, causing corruption.
Currently the only way to avoid this problem is to wrap the
sanitizer in a procmail ruleset or helper script which will
quarantine the original unmodified message and use it verbatim if
the sanitizer doesn't find any security risks in it.
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