Logs vs. headers

[David Lee]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Kevin Brouelette wrote:
>
> >X-VarLog.net-MailScanner-Information:  Please contact the ISP for more information
> >X-VarLog.net-MailScanner-SpamCheck:  spam, SpamAssassin (score=3.43,
> >required 2.5, BIZ_TLD 0.78, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.55, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10)
> >X-VarLog.net-MailScanner-SpamScore:  sss
> >
> >
> >
> Kevin,
>
> You seem to have a dot in your org name (VarLog.net).  This is a bad
> idea because it will get you into trouble on some systems.

This configuration problem seems to crop up several times on the list.

Could I suggest that MailScanner itself does a sanity check?  When it
loads "MailScanner.conf" it could check that these various header
definitions (e.g. "Information Header" etc.) to ensure that there are no
glaring errors.


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