Not a Mime header?

[Peter Russell]

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Rick Cooper wrote:
>>-----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.
Sorry i wasnt very clear - i pasted in the comments from the admin at
the other end.

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