Additional blank line inserted into header, Postfix 2.0.18-4

[Julian Field]

Not really, no. There's no difference between a message which suffers this
problem and a real message that just has weird text in it.


On 26/10/04 12:12 pm, "Ron E." <ree at THUNDERSTAR.NET> wrote:

> 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.
>>

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