Does MailScanner configuration error?

Martin Sapsed m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK
Tue Sep 2 18:28:11 IST 2003


Peter Peters wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:57:24 +0100, you wrote:
>>>Perhaps they are looking at your headers which more than likely say
>>>"X-MailScanner: Found to be clean"
>>>
>>>Search your MailScanner.conf for that and change it to something OTHER than
>>>Found to be clean and see if that helps.
>>
>>I thought Julian's recommendation was to change the X-MailScanner: bit
>>rather than the body - dopey filterers may be dumping based on the
>>presence of the header rather than what it says?
>
> I have seen bounces from this same kind of software. Because we have
> changed the headers I presumed this server still uses osirusoft.

But surely then the e-mails would bounce whether he had MailScanner
turned off or on wouldn't they? The impression I got of the original
problem was that the bounces were caused by something which MailScanner
adds to the messages.

Cheers,

Martin

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Martin Sapsed
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