MailScanner sends Invalid MIME headers?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 25 22:17:36 IST 2004


At 18:20 25/05/2004, you wrote:
>The %org-name% is "havertys.com", is that bad?

Please read the documentation in the comment immediately above the line in
which you set %org-name%.


>Alex Laslavic
>Havertys Tech Services
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>Alex
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>sounds like the %org-name% in the MailScanner.conf as a '.' or someother
>illegal character in their.
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>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.
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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.
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> > Using mailscanner-4.29.7-1 from RPM.
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> > Alex Laslavic
> > Havertys Tech Services
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