[aklug] Re: Security hole in installs of Ubuntu.

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 August 2009, damien@linuxninjas.tv said something like:
>> NOTE
>> Not sure why my previous email was mangled.
>
> This is something we've run into before: it *seems* (though I haevn't
> been able to verify it) that ecartis blindly strips the content type
> header and replaces it with text/plain so e-mails that are sent "quoted
> printable" or base64 encoded (like yours were) are mangled.
>
> Your message run through base64 -d came out just fine. :)

Yep, I was a little too strict when I configured this list back in 2001,
and set it to only pass on plain text. That's how it does it.

Mike

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Received on Fri Aug 21 18:33:52 2009