Additional blank line inserted into header, Postfix 2.0.18-4

[Ron E.]

Dear Julian,

        Yes, definitely agreed!

        Perhaps this is done intentionally... this is always spam that has
this extra "header" consisting of one space. If this is of interest, I can
post a sample of one of these.

        Due to the way that I handle email that is deteted as spam on this
particular server, such messages are not routed correctly and they make it
to users when normally they are blocked.

        Is there any way to configure MailScanner to quarantine such
items?

Regards,

Ron

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Julian Field
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