Help with RFC Format MS 4.25-5 : More

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Oct 16 19:45:17 IST 2003


I just checked RFC2822 and a "." is quite legal in the name of a header.

At 19:33 16/10/2003, you wrote:
>Oh my goodness... That was it.
>a '.' killed Symantec!!
>Thank you all for all of your help!!
>Thank you Mr. Freegard for realizing the '.' issue (how?)
>Thank you Mr. Spicer for you analysis advice
>
>virtual beers on me - 2 rounds!
>
>greyhair.
>
>Steve Freegard wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'd guess that Symantec doesn't like the '.' in the MailScanner headers.
>>
>>X-greyhair.net-MailScanner-Information
>>X-greyhair.net-MailScanner
>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>Try changing these to X-Greyhair-Net-MailScanner... and see if that cures
>>your problem.
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>Steve.
>>
>>--
>>Steve Freegard
>>Systems Manager
>>Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: greyhair [mailto:greyhair at GREYHAIR.NET] Sent: 16 October 2003 16:29
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Help with RFC Format MS 4.25-5 : More
>>
>>Hi.
>>There is a difference, but I do not know the implication:
>>there are some ?, ?? and x? missing....
>>
>>the ***.***.***.*** replaces all IP addresses
>>the **@***.com replaces email addresses
>>
>>output with mailscanner is first
>>and sendmail only output is next.
>>
>>Mailscanner:
>>
>>V4
>>T1066320612
>>K0
>>N0
>>P30409
>>I3/7/16489
>>Fb
>>$_[***.***.***.***]
>>$rESMTP
>>$sgreyhair.net
>>${daemon_flags}
>>${if_addr}***.***.***.***
>>S<greyhair at greyhair.net>
>>RPFD:<**@***.com>
>>H?P?Return-Path: <g>
>>HReceived: from greyhair.net ([***.***.***.***])
>>by mail.greyhair.net (8.11.6/2002.11.21) with ESMTP id h9GGACS10867
>>for <**@***.com>; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:12 -0500
>>HFull-Name: Mr. Greyhair
>>HMessage-ID: <3F8EC2E3.5040307 at greyhair.net>
>>HDate: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:11 -0500
>>HFrom: greyhair <greyhair at greyhair.net>
>>HUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) 
>>Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2
>>HX-Accept-Language: en-us, en
>>HMIME-Version: 1.0
>>HTo: **@***.com
>>HSubject: test
>>HContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>>HContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>HX-greyhair.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more 
>>information
>>HX-greyhair.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>>.
>>
>>Non-Mailscanner (sendmail):
>>
>>V4
>>T1066320771
>>K0
>>N0
>>P30407
>>I3/7/16489
>>Fb
>>$_[***.***.***.***]
>>$rESMTP
>>$sgreyhair.net
>>${daemon_flags}
>>${if_addr}***.***.***.***
>>S<greyhair at greyhair.net>
>>RPFD:<**@***.com>
>>H?P?Return-Path: <g>
>>H??Received: from greyhair.net ([***.***.***.***])
>>by mail.greyhair.net (8.11.6/2002.11.21) with ESMTP id h9GGCpR11196
>>for <**@***.com>; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:12:51 -0500
>>H?x?Full-Name: Mr. Greyhair
>>H??Message-ID: <3F8EC382.40307 at greyhair.net>
>>H??Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:12:50 -0500
>>H??From: greyhair <greyhair at greyhair.net>
>>H??User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) 
>>Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2
>>H??X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
>>H??MIME-Version: 1.0
>>H??To: **@***.com
>>H??Subject: test
>>H??Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>>H??Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>.
>>
>>
>>Spicer, Kevin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>greyhair wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>Thanks for your quick reply.  How do I run mailscanner in queue only
>>>>mode?  I'll do that if you tell me how.
>>>>greyhair
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Delivery Method = queue
>>>
>>>
>>>Make sure you stop the outgoing sendmail just in case it trys to deliver
>>>
>>them from the queue before you grab them.
>>
>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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>>are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
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>>
>>This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
>>MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info) for the presence of computer viruses.
>>
>>
>>
>

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