Not a Mime header?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 10 04:15:26 IST 2005


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Damn, that's the usual cause of that one. Why else why they might think
it's not a MIME header? What evidence do they have?

Peter Russell wrote:

> Hi, thanks no gaps at all.
>
> Email has only settled down over the past 2 weeks. I shall resend and
> BCC you this arvo. Good luck! :)
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Check you don't have any spaces in your %org-name%, that is the most
>> common cause of this sort of problem.
>>
>> Peter --- Any news on your bosses opinions recently?
>>
>> Peter Russell wrote:
>>
>>> We have an admin from another company who was expecting from some of
>>> our
>>> staff claiming that the MailScanner headers is not a mime header and
>>> therfore he cannot accept the mail for delivery.
>>>
>>> COuld anyone offer me any advice on a) how to respond and b) whether i
>>> need to change anything in my config?
>>>
>>> Kind regards and thanks
>>> Pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "In the case of these three (3) emails, they were stopped as
>>> undetermined.
>>> They were stopped because of an error within the framework of the
>>> email -
>>> bad data (see below).   The  error being that a one of the lines
>>> inserted
>>> into the header of the email by MBS, specifically the line "
>>> -X-OURCOMPANYNAME-MailScanner - Information: Please contact your ISP
>>> for
>>> more information" is not a MIME header and caused the problem.
>>> They need to contact the sender, who in turn needs to contact their
>>> administrator to fix this issue.  --- It is not an problem with our
>>> server & there is nothing I can do to rectify the issue, except release
>>> the emails if they are stopped."
>>>
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