Blank Subject in Notices to System Administrators (Exim)

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jan 20 18:23:55 GMT 2003


Can you try this for me?
Edit /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Exim.pm and change line 480 from

         if ("subject" eq lc $1) {

to

         if ("subject:" eq lc $1) {

(i.e. add a ':'). Then restart MailScanner and see if this fixes the problem.

At 18:12 20/01/2003, you wrote:
>I am running MailScanner 4.11 + Exim patch from Nick, and I notice (pun
>intended) that all of my Notices to System Administrators have a blank
>Subject field.  I have Notices Include Full Headers = yes, and I can see the
>real subject in the full headers below, but the summary before the Full
>headers just has a blank subject.
>
>Here's an example:
>
>The following e-mail messages were found to have viruses in them:
>
>=====================================
>     Sender: <yjworks at online.sh.cn>
>IP Address: 199.105.164.4.22033
>  Recipient: xxxx at sensis.com
>    Subject:
>  MessageID: 18ag8j-0004BD-00
>     Report: /18ag8j-0004BD-00/Notes.exe        Found the W32/Yaha.k virus
>!!!
>Notes.exe contains Yaha.K
>Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email (Notes.exe)
>
>Full headers are
>  Received: from smtpmail.sensis.com [199.105.164.4] (mail)
>         by dimstar.syr.sensis.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
>         id 18ag8j-0004BD-00; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:55:17 -0500
>  Received: from bgp385601bgs.jersyc01.nj.comcast.net (smtpmail.sensis.com)
>[68.36.35.194]
>         by smtpmail.sensis.com with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
>         id 18ag8h-0000F2-00; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:55:15 -0500
>  From: Jonathan<yjworks at online.sh.cn>
>  To: xxxx at sensis.com
>  Subject: Things to note
>  Date: Mon,20 Jan 2003 12:55:10 PM
>  X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
>  Content-Type:multipart/mixed;
>  boundary=#r0xx#
>  Message-Id: <E18ag8h-0000F2-00 at smtpmail.sensis.com>
>=====================================
>
>Is anyone else having this problem?  Obviously this is not a big deal since
>email is still getting scanned, and I do have the subject in the full
>headers.  My guess is that this is Exim specific.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jason

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