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[John Fawcett]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, David R Bosso wrote:
> 
>>So as before, it's illegal to send them.
> 
> 
> Which means the MTAs have to accept *and strip* them, as forwading is just
> an subcase of sending, IMHO.
> 
> Now, if the requirements for a spool (MDA) are the same as those for a MTA,
> then Cyrus must accept and strip those NULs (especially because we might be
> resending them through sieve, in which case we act sort of like an MTA).
> 

I think the correct place to strip nuls is:
spool.c: spool_copy_msg

To be consistent should this change also be made to:
message.c: message_copy_strict

Any other ideas or comments which would help with making a patch?

thanks
John

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