[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#641012: base: /usr/bin/file command identifies incorrectly as a "DOS executable (COM)" starting with 0xE9.

[Tamas Tobi]

Package: base
Severity: important

I found that the mailscanner package identifies and blocking incorrectly the TXT or HTML attachments starting with 0xE9 (Hungarian "é") character due to the file command says it is a DOS executable.
Because of this bug, the mailscanner blocking some importnat mails which are clean. I found on other systems (Ubuntu 10.04) the same behavoiur.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash