Bad RFC822 field name ''

[Clive Eisen]

Clive Eisen wrote:

> Jérôme MOLLIER-PIERRET wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We use Malscanner with qmail, and experienced this morning some issue
>> with stranges mail that are non RFC822 compliant.
>>
>> It seem that the mail package Mail::Internet has problem when
>> Mailscanner trying to process this mail from his queue.
>>
>> In debug mode the error is :
>> Bad RFC822 field name ''
>>  at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/Internet.pm line 130
>>
> We had that too
>
> the offending message seems to have been
>
> Received: (qmail 7691 invoked by uid 0); 31 May 2004 14:58:58 -0000
> Received: from cvg-65-26-147-135.cinci.rr.com (65.26.147.135)
>  by 146.101.136.68 with SMTP; 31 May 2004 14:58:58 -0000
> Received: from 36.26.68.43 by 65.26.147.135 Mon, 31 May 2004 21:53:00 
> +0600
> Message-ID: <teljrwfxbzeoz2weYmnVKQ2xMub at rogers.com>
> From: " Sears" <306339186 at ae.com>
> Reply-To: " Sears" <306339186 at ae.com>
> To: toze at covato.com
> Subject: hey i tried to call you
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:51:00 -0700
> X-Mailer:
> -:
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>        boundary="--114838899249203109"
> [        |            Priority: Normal 
> |                                                                                                                             
> ]
>
> ----114838899249203109
> Content-Type: text/html;
> Content-Encoding: NUM
>
> </x-html>
> <p align="center">
> Hey, whats up, my name is Jen and I'm new to this dating thing. I
> saw your profile you put up and I like it. =) I just want to get to
> know you a little better if you don't mind, come check my homepage
> with all my contact info at:
>
Sorry to comment on my own post

I'd really like to know if this is a qmail/mailscanner problem or 
generic mailscanner

Can someone inject it into a queue who uses sendmail/postfix/exim - I'd 
really appreciate it. I suggest you edit the 'To:" to something local

I think the problem is early on in the mailscanner cycle, whilst the 
batch is being built because when I reduced the

Max Normal Queue Size

messages started flowing until the above rogue message was 'found' again.

TIA

--
Clive

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