Weird error messages in my maillog

[Randal, Phil]

Does

  X-Acme                  Company-MailScanner-Information:

make it any clearer?

I'd guess spaces aren't allowed in "X-" headers.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Jason Williams
> Sent: 22 March 2004 17:34
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Weird error messages in my maillog
>
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> I'm working on a setup where MS is going to be sitting on our
> Company DMZ,
> acting as our mail gateway. I'm using FreeBSD, Sendmail and
> MS 4.28-5. I
> have everything setup and started to do my initial testing.
>
> Everything appears to be working correctly for the most part,
> but when I
> watch the maillog, I see some interesting messages that are
> being generated
> and im not sure why.
> Here is a snip:
>
> Mar 22 03:02:38 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Jnx008135:
> SYSERR(root): header
> syntax error, line "X-Acme Company-MailScanner-Information:
> Please contact
> the ISP for more information"
> Mar 22 03:02:38 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Jnx008135:
> SYSERR(root): header
> syntax error, line "X-Acme Company-MailScanner: Found to be clean"
> Mar 22 03:02:38 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Jnx008135:
> SYSERR(root): header
> syntax error, line "X-Acme Company-MailScanner-SpamScore: s"
> Mar 22 03:02:39 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Jnx008135:
> to=jwilliams at acme.com, ctladdr=<root at mailmg.acme.com> (0/0),
> delay=00:01:20, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=120677,
> relay=www.acme.com. [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (i2MB3Sl10893
> Message accepted for delivery)
> Mar 22 03:02:39 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Kuj008142:
> SYSERR(root): header
> syntax error, line "X-Acme Company-MailScanner-Information:
> Please contact
> the ISP for more information"
> Mar 22 03:02:39 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Kuj008142:
> SYSERR(root): header
> syntax error, line "X-Acme Company-MailScanner: Found to be clean"
> Mar 22 03:02:39 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Kuj008142:
> SYSERR(root): header
> syntax error, line "X-Acme Company-MailScanner-SpamScore: s"
> Mar 22 03:02:39 mailmg sendmail[8162]: i2MB1Kuj008142:
> to=jwilliams at acme.com, ctladdr=<root at mailmg.acme.com> (0/0),
> delay=00:01:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=122395,
> relay=www.acme.com. [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (i2MB3Sl10895
> Message accepted for delivery)
>
> When I was tracing steps, it appears that these emails were
> 'root's emails
> being forwarded to my email address.
>
> I'm still going to be looking through logs and my configs to
> try and figure
> out why this is being generated. In the meantime, I thought i'd see if
> anyone else has seen this error before.
>
> I appreciate it.
>
> Jason
>