Not a Mime header?

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:36 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Not a Mime header?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Rick Cooper
> > Sent: den 11 maj 2005 01:43
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Not a Mime header?
> >
> >
> > > -----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
>
> Very true Rick. But looking at what Pete is sending to the list...
> it sure looks like a typo ... Of course assuming it is that
> domain that is having problems:-)
>
> -- Glenn

That's what I thought, but it looked like he clipped it out of an error
message he received, either a different domain or a problem/mistake he had
already corrected because the listed header was most defiantly an invalid
one and I didn't see anything like it in the headers from his messages
either.

Rick



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