Message contains NUL characters ...

[Amos]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> The correct place to do it is in the MTA.  Doing it in the MTA means you get
> the trash out before anything else has a chance to bounce it back, log it,
> store it, or whatever.
> 
> Which doesn't mean I would be against a good patch for Cyrus, but I would
> rather the MTAs started either fixing or rejecting all such crap worldwide.
> If exim, sendmail and postfix rejected broken messages, that would be enough
> to make it impossible to tolerate for the users of NUL-generating crap.
> 

Maybe *ideally* it needs to be fixed by the MTA. However, just casually 
following this list and the postfix-users list, whenever the issue of 
NUL characters have come up, it has always been centered around Cyrus. I 
know that there are folks using Postfix with other IMAP servers, and 
never once have I noticed this topic in relation to these systems. As 
best as I can recall, it has always been in relation to Cyrus.

So, my take on this is that while it may be *ideally* better dealt with 
by the MTA, perhaps *practically* it is more productive to remedy the 
software that is bitching the most about it. It certainly would cut down 
on the frequency that this issue comes up on this list....

a



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