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 Scott Silva
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:16 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Not a Mime header?
>
>
> 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."
> >
> Is the - before the X-OURCOMPANYNAME ... a typo?
>

yes, there are standard headers, From:, To:, etc and there are private
tokens that should begin with X-, or x-. If the header is
really -X-OURCOMPANYNAME it should generate a bad header error since it's
neither a standard header nor an X-token header. I don't know how many
systems actually reject on invalid headers but you will get a boost from SA
when it comes across one.

In any event if the header is actually -X-OURCOMPANYNAME then you should
correct it.

The header as it appears in the message you quoted:

  -X-OURCOMPANYNAME-MailScanner - Information:

should be:
  X-OURCOMPANYNAME-MailScanner-Information: (no leading - and no spaces in
the MailScanner - Information: part)

Rick


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