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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_at_bar.org
>To: myaccount_at_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
Received on Sep 30 2004
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