MailScanner sends Invalid MIME headers?

[Julian Field]

At 18:04 25/05/2004, you wrote:
>Alex
>
>sounds like the %org-name% in the MailScanner.conf as a '.' or someother
>illegal character in their.
>
>Not one of Symantecs products on the remote end is it? They are well
>known on this list for being pedantic about this issue in the headers.

"." is perfectly legal according to the RFC. It is a bug in Symantec
products that makes them refuse to accept header names with a "." in them.
They are simply wrong, not pedantic.

This is carefully described in the MailScanner.conf file, please read the
comment above the %org-name% definition line.



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>Martin Hepworth
>Snr Systems Administrator
>Solid State Logic
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>
>Alex Laslavic wrote:
>>Running MailScanner as an email gateway to the rest of our email system.
>>Works great, but I have received a complaint from other another email
>>sysadmin saying that our messages were being denied because of invalid MIME
>>headers.  They just whitelisted us.
>>
>>Now I have another company that cannot receive emails that are send through
>>mailscanner.  They do not know why, but I know that they do not receive our
>>messages.  However, if I send them a message from the same server, but not
>>through mailscanner, it seems to go through OK.
>>
>>Is there a known bug with mailscanner-4.29.7-1 that could be causing this?
>>Will upgrading to 4.30 help me?
>>
>>Any input is appreciated.  Unfortunately, the other mail admins did not
>>specify what they were using to scan.
>>
>>
>>
>>Using mailscanner-4.29.7-1 from RPM.
>>
>>Alex Laslavic
>>Havertys Tech Services
>>
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