malformed MIME headers

[Rob Freeman]

Is it the ":" I comment out?

Information Header = X-%org-name%-MailScanner-Information:

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Freegard" <steve.freegard at lbsltd.co.uk>
To: "'Rob Freeman'" <sysadmin at FLEETONE.COM>
Cc: "'MailScanner mailing list'" <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: malformed MIME headers


> Hi Rob,
>
> I remember this being discussed on the list once before:
>
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner-Information:
> X-fleetone.com-MailScanner:
>
> Remove the '.' in these headers and it should start working - there was a
> detailed discussion on whether or not this is RFC compliant, the consensus
> was that it is and the problem was actually a bug in Symantec's software.
>
> Julian made a note about this in MailScanner.conf after this problem
> occurred:
>
> [root at hoshi MailScanner]# grep -i symantec MailScanner.conf -B7 -A2
>
> # Enter a short identifying name for your organisation below, this is
> # used to make the X-MailScanner headers unique for your organisation.
> # Multiple servers within one site should use an identical value here
> # to avoid adding multiple redundant headers where mail has passed
> # through several servers within your organisation.
> # RULE: It must not contain any spaces!
> # Note: Some Symantec scanners complain (incorrectly) about "."
> # ***** characters appearing in the names of headers.
> %org-name% = LBS
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
>
> --
> Steve Freegard
> Systems Manager
> Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Freeman [mailto:sysadmin at FLEETONE.COM]
> > Sent: 14 April 2004 14:15
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: malformed MIME headers
> >
> >
> > Sorry about the delay, had a server hard drive crash on me.
> >
> > Here is the header of the message in question.
> >
> > From autoprocess at xxxxxx.com  Wed Apr 14 08:12:12 2004
> > Return-Path: <autoprocess at xxxxxxx.com>
> > Received: from mail.fleetone.com (mail.fleetone.com [66.236.227.91])
> >     by mail.robhq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i3EDBE7S010990
> >     for <rob at robhq.com>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:11:14 -0500
> > Received: from fleetone_mail.fleetone.com (fleetone_mail.fleetone.com
> > [172.16.40.96])
> >     by mail.fleetone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id
> > i3ED73FE029164;
> >     Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:07:05 -0500
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0
> > Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> >     boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C42221.F8C17670"
> > Subject: FleetOne Merchant Settlement Report From
> > TransPlatinum Service
> > Corp.
> > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:11:17 -0500
> > Message-ID:
> > <8BFA104B8AE4324EB5E32C93483A3DC307FF40B4 at fleetone_mail.fleetone.com>
> > X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
> > X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
> > Thread-Topic: FleetOne Merchant Settlement Report From
> > TransPlatinum Service
> > Corp.
> > Thread-Index: AcQhcnz9FtBnI8X1TymBfGwsx2tEZA==
> > From: "autoprocess" <autoprocess at fleetone.com>
> > To: <saraha at xxxx.com>, "Robin  Jones" <rjones at xxxxxxx.com>
> > Cc: <rob at xxxx.com>
> > X-fleetone.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact
> > postmaster at fleetone.com for more information
> > X-fleetone.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> > X-robhq-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for
> > more information
> > X-robhq-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> > X-robhq-MailScanner-SpamScore: s
> > X-MailScanner-From: autoprocess at xxxxxxx.com
> > Status: R
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: malformed MIME headers
> >
> >
> > > Any more information on what the problem actually is?
> > > The Symantec page merrily states that the messages aren't
> > compliant, but
> > in
> > > what way?
> > >
> > > At 12:17 14/04/2004, you wrote:
> > > >We are running MailScanner 4.29-7 as a front end to our
> > Exchange server
> > for
> > > >about the last 2 weeks after replacing our xwall box with
> > it.  Since the
> > > >move we have one customer who is getting error messages
> > from us about
> > > >malformed MIME headers on his Symantec AntiVirus for SMTP
> > Gateway.  He
> > sent
> > > >this link with the information:
> > > >
> > >
> > >http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-gate.nsf/dc983c4134c
> 90dfd88256c0e0
> 0592490/4d9b4fb636faa23d88256c78005fe2cb?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam
> > >
> > >The emails in ? do have a .htm attachment, as that is how some of our
> > >customers receive their invoices from us.
> > >
> > >Is there anything on our end we can do to get emails to him?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Rob
> >
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.
>