Blank Subject in Notices to System Administrat ors (Exim)

[Desai, Jason]

What great service ... that fixed the problem!  Thanks!

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Blank Subject in Notices to System
> Administrators (Exim)
>
>
> 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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