Why does F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper sometimes fail to process uuencoded files?
This applies to all the versions of the F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper when it is used to scan e-mails. Uuencode is a very old and non-standardized way to encode files so that they can be sent by e-mail. There are numerous different uuencoding implementations by various vendors, groups and individuals. While some of them are mostly compatible with each other, there are also many unique and incompatible uuencoding methods. Nowadays it is recommended to replace uuencoding by the Internet standard MIME encodings. F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper tries to uudecode the uuencoded files. In case the uuencoding method is unknown to the decoding methods F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper uses, the message will not be delivered. Depending on the quarantine settings, it may be quarantined with appropriate error message. If really needed, the product can be configured to let these messages through with the Action on Malformed Mails setting. For more information, see the chapter about Security Options in the F
