Blank lines inserted into header...

[Philip Butler]

Even more information - it's a sendmail problem.  The "lightbulb"
finally came on and I tried the same test on a system without
MailScanner - same problem - so it must be sendmail.

Sorry for the false alarm.

Phil

On Dec 4, 2003, at 1:23 PM, Philip Butler wrote:

> Julian,
>
> Here's a bit more information.  I am still having the problem - I have
> noticed it's with any X- header that may be "too long" whatever that
> may mean.
>
> For example, I got an email that had the following header in it:
>
>
> X-Exclaimer-OnMessagePostCategorize-{50a0a0f9-c0e6-4bf3-be44
> -9194dd1a3dbc}: F:\Program Files\exclaimer\eXclaimer.dll - 2.0.4.67
>
> and it has a blank line preceding this in the output of
> mailscanner/sendmail.  This effectively makes this header line become
> the start of the message body.
>
> However, when I change it to:
>
>    X-Exclaimer: F:\Program Files\exclaimer\eXclaimer.dll - 2.0.4.67
>
> there is no blank line added and the message headers remain intact.
>
>
> Therefore, it's not the X-%org-name% logic that I previously thought it
> was, but rather it seems to be the length of the header name.  Of
> course, it could be sendmail that is doing this perhaps.  I bet I have
> a misconfiguration somehow - I can't believe that nobody else is seeing
> this same problem otherwise.
>
> Just so everyone knows - here's how I tested:
>
>    cat /file.txt | sendmail butler at globeserver.com    (where /file.txt
> has the original email with the blank line removed)
>
> by editing the /file.txt and shortening the X- header name, it works as
> it should.
>
>
> Phil Butler
>
> On Nov 27, 2003, at 3:46 AM, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
>>
>> At 20:15 26/11/2003, you wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is a repeated issue.
>>>
>>> I have noticed messages with the:
>>>
>>>        X-%org-name%-MailScanner-Information:  (and other X-%org-name%
>>> headers)
>>>
>>>
>>> For example, an email that just came in:
>>>
>>>        X-WADSNET550-MailScanner-Information: Please contact
>>> admin at wadsnet.net
>>> for more
>>>                                  info
>>>
>>>
>>> These lines seem to have a blank line in front of them, which
>>> basically
>>> ends the header and puts the X-header as the first line of the email
>>> body.  Is there a switch that keeps these headers in the header and
>>> does not start the body ??  I can see that some might want the
>>> message
>>> to be visible in the message, but I think I would prefer these
>>> headers
>>> to remain in the email header.
>>>
>>> BTW, messages like this have a blank subject and From:/To: because
>>> the
>>> X-org-name headers tend to show up before the Subject/etc. headers.
>>> These are visible in the body of the message, but it messes up email
>>> filters.
>>>
>>> Any comments ??
>>>
>>> Sorry again if this is repeated - and as always:
>>>
>>>        MailScanner (and Julian !!) rules !!!
>>>
>>> Phil
>>
>> --
>> Julian Field
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