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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:00:23 +1000
From:      Mark.Andrews@isc.org
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: post last sendmail upgrade 
Message-ID:  <200304170400.h3H40NM2033498@drugs.dv.isc.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:17:04 MST." <20030416201704.A28970@zardoc.esmtp.org> 

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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote:
> > 
> > 	I've noticed email corruption post the last upgrade to sendmail
> > 	committed to stable.  Is anyone else experiencing this?
> 
> What kind of corruption?

	I've had the tail of the body set to 0x80's.  Most common
	failure mode.

	I've had a message (S-P1-P2-E) appear as (S-P2 P1-E),
	the chunk P1-P2 appears twice.

	
> You may want to follow the advise in the last sentence:
> 
> 	To provide partial protection for internal, unpatched MTAs that may be
> 		performing 7->8 or 8->7 bit MIME conversions, the default
> 		for MaxMimeHeaderLength has been changed to 2048/1024.
> 		Note: this does have a performance impact, and it only
> 		protects against frontal attacks from the outside.
> 		To disable the checks and return to pre-8.12.9 defaults,
> 		set MaxMimeHeaderLength to -1/-1.
> 
> It seems that the MaxMimeHeaderLength checks remove '\0' under
> certain circumstances.
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