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

Mike Tibor wrote:
> 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
>
I have no problems with text only. My messages don't always make
sense, but that's not because of encoding.

Adam
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Received on Fri Aug 21 20:10:27 2009