X-Mozilla-Status

[Julian Field]

At 11:21 03/09/2004, you wrote:
>At 10:44 03/09/2004, you wrote:
>>Martin Sapsed wrote:
>>>>>Unfortunately, some spammers puts these two headers into spam:
>>>>>X-Mozilla-Status:
>>>>>X-Mozilla-Status2:
>>>>>Can mailscanner remove those two headers from all
>>>>>processed e-mails?
>>>Unless I'm much mistaken that's a job for your MTA - sendmail, postfix
>>>or whatever...?
>>I'm using sendmail. I've search on google and i did find nothing that
>>could help
>>solving my problem.
>>I see that MIMEDefang is able to remove headers:
>>
>>action_delete_header($hdr, $index) - Deletes an existing header in the
>>message.
>>This can be used in filter_begin or filter_end. The $hdr parameter is the
>>header
>>name without the colon. The $index parameter is optional; it defaults to
>>1. If
>>you supply it, then the $index'th occurrence of the header is deleted, if
>>there
>>is more than one header with the same name.
>>
>>But does installing MIMEDefang only to remove 2 headers make sense?
>
>I have just added a setting
>
>Remove These Headers
>
>so that you can specify a list of headers which you want removed from all
>messages. This can of course be a ruleset so you could use it to delete all
>x-mozilla-status and x-mozilla-status2 headers from incoming mail.
>
>A good use for it would be to automatically remove receipt requests from
>any incoming mail, so you don't reveal information about your staff and who
>is currently at work reading their mail.

Apply this patch to your installation:
         cd /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner
         patch < remove.headers.patch
That will update your ConfigDefs.pl and Message.pm files.
Then add this to your MailScanner.conf file:

# If any of these headers are included in a a message, they will be deleted.
# This is very useful for removing return-receipt requests and any headers
# which mean special things to your email client application, such as
# X-Mozilla-Status.
# Each header should end in a ":", but MailScanner will add it if you forget.
# Headers should be separated by commas or spaces.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
Remove These Headers =

This will all be included in the next release, but I thought I would post
the patch for those who don't want to (or can't) wait for it.

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