Broken Return-Path: header

[Julian Field]

At 12:39 09/05/2002, you wrote:
>I don't know what it was supposed to do, but when I apply this patch, it
>just deletes the Return-Path header from the warning message AND from the
>infected message.

That should only happen if you are using MailScanner on the server that
does the final message delivery into the user's mailbox.

Is the Return-Path header any use anyway? I don't see why as it is trivial
to fake.

I'll try to write you a better version of the solution.

>Clean messages still show a good Return-Path header.
>
>--
>   Evert Jan van Ramselaar  <evertjan at vanramselaar.nl>
>   Van Ramselaar Info Tech  <http://www.vanramselaar.nl>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:18 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Broken Return-Path: header
> >
> >
> > If you are getting weird
> >          Return-Path: <$g>
> > headers in your mail from MailScanner, please can you try the following
> > patch and report back to me if it works.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > *** /usr/local/mailscanner/mailscanner/bin/mta-specific.pl      Thu May  9
> > 12:22:47 2002
> > --- mta-specific.pl     Thu May  9 11:25:12 2002
> > ***************
> > *** 551,560 ****
> > --- 551,562 ----
> >          $InHeader = 1 if $Line =~ /^H/;
> >          ($InHeader=0),next unless $Line =~ /^[H\t ]/;
> >          $Line =~ s/^H//;
> >          # JKF 18/04/2001 Delete ?flags? for 0 or more flags for
> > sendmail 8.11
> >          $Line =~ s/^\?[^?]*\?//;
> > +       # JKF 06/05/2002 Fix broken Return-Path: header bug
> > +       next if $Line =~ /^Return-Path:/i;
> >          push @results, $Line;
> >          if ($Line =~ /^Subject:\s+(\S.*)$/i) {
> >            $subject = $1;
> >            #print "Subject is \"$subject\"\n";
> >          }
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> >

--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ