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Re: spamtest/virustest "NIL" behaviour

2003-04-30 10:22:19

Hi Nigel,

--On Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:28 PM +0100 Nigel Swinson <Nigel(_at_)Swinson(_dot_)com> wrote:

| When the virus scanner or the anti spam scanner fail, I presume we give
| the spamtest/virustest a "NIL" value as though it never even passed
| through the scanner.  So according to RFC2244, when we use ascii-numeric,
| that seems to imply that "NIL" turns into a very large number.  Is that
| right?

Yes - Ned pointed this out and I did fix the example and add some comments about this situation.

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Cyrus Daboo