Additional blank line inserted into header, Postfix 2.0.18-4

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 26 09:15:15 IST 2004


Header names are not allowed to have spaces in them. If you add a header (or
someone else adds a header) whose name contains a space, then you (or they)
are breaking an important bit of RFC822 (or 2822) and all sorts of nasty
things will happen.

On 26/10/04 5:46 am, "Ron E." <ree at THUNDERSTAR.NET> wrote:
>         I'm running postfix, MailScanner 4.35.5-1 and SA 3.0.1, but this
> same problem was occasionally happening with MailScanner 4.33.3-1 and SA
> 3.0.0.
>
>         What happens is occasionally messages will have a blank line
> inserted just before the X-orgname-MailScanner-Information -- I checked a
> bit more thoroughly and found that that line has one space in it just
> before EOL.
>
>         Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I searched the
> archives and found only one other mention of this but occurring with
> Sendmail.
>
>         I also checked briefly through the postfix mailing list but didn't
> find much.
>
>         Hopefully someone has an idea how I can track this down. It's
> rather annoying as the occasional message will then not be correctly
> handled after MailScanner is done with it due to the header that appears
> to end before the spamassassin scoring stuff.

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