Not a Mime header?

[Rick Cooper]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Peter Russell
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 7:04 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Not a Mime header?
>
>
> 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."
>



Is the -X- a typo or is there really a - preceeding X? and X-token header is
certainly valid, where as a -X-token would not be. If your mailscanner token
really is

'-X-OURCOMPANYNAME-MailScanner - Information: Please contact your ISP for
more information' then you need to fix it, if it's not then there is
something odd about how they are parsing headers.

Rick


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