Recipients addresses appearing since upgrade

[Wayne]

At 17:42 23/09/2006, you wrote:

Yes, Jim I agree hello Julian any views on this problem.

Regards

Wayne




> > > > >On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Wayne wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > A serious situation has arisen since upgrading to Mailscanner 4,55
> > > > > > the following details are being added
> > > > > > to our mailing list postings: Example ....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >>X-Balita-MailScanner-To: aalicant at sakentz.com,
> > > acarpio at us.imshealth.com,
> > > > > > >>         adangoy at voyageur.ca, alablues at otelco.net,
> > > alingdolly at yahoo.com,
> > > > > > >>         almazan at uplink.net, alnoveloso at yahoo.com.au,
> > > > > > >>         alophoixus at ukonline.co.uk and so on ........
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It is obvious the MailScanner upgrade has altered a 
> setting that was
> > > > > > not set before.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As a matter of urgency can someone tell me what it could be that
> > > > > > needs altering back to its original state.
> > > > >
> > > > >I haven't come across this before, but the obvious place to look is in
> > > > >MailScanner.conf:
> > > > >
> > > > ># Do you want to add the Envelope-To: header?
> > > > ># This can be useful for tracking spam destinations, but should be
> > > > ># used with care due to possible privacy concerns with the use of
> > > > ># Bcc: headers by users.
> > > > ># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> > > > >Add Envelope To Header = no
> > > > >
> > > > >If you have that set to yes then that might explain your problem.
> > > > >
> > > > >Regards
> > > > >
> > > > >Jim Holland
> > > > >System Administrator
> > > > >MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
> > >
> > >On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Wayne wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks Jim
> > > >
> > > > Both the To and From Envelopes are set to no :-( even commenting the
> > > > lines out with # seem to make no difference. Don't know if I should
> > > > or not but after each alteration in .conf I am restarting MailScanner.
> > >
> > >Now it gets more difficult.  Is your MailScanner.conf file in the standard
> > >place (/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf)?  Could there be another copy in
> > >some other place that is being used instead?  Have you changed the type of
> > >MailScanner installation between versions (eg using a tarball for one and
> > >an rpm or other package for another)?  Perhaps you then have a situation
> > >where you have a conflict between the old and new versions.
> > >
> > >In the meantime, if you are desperate, try stopping MailScanner,
> > >commenting out the following section of the Message.pm file which should
> > >be in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner, and then restarting MailScanner:
> > >
> > >   # Do they all want the To header
> > >   if (MailScanner::Config::Value('addenvto', $this) !~ /0/) {
> > >     # Get the actual text for the header value
> > >     foreach $to (@{$this->{to}}) {
> > >       $tolist{$to} = 1;
> > >     }
> > >     $to = join(', ', sort keys %tolist);
> > >
> > >     $envtoheader = MailScanner::Config::Value('envtoheader', $this);
> > >     # Now reflow the To list in case it is very long
> > >     $to = $this->ReflowHeader($envtoheader, $to);
> > >
> > >     $global::MS->{mta}->ReplaceHeader($this, $envtoheader, $to);
> > >   }
> > >
> > >Clearly the problem is that somehow the value of addenvto (which comes
> > >from AddEnvelopeToHeader) is not zero.
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >
> > >Jim Holland
> > >System Administrator
> > >MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>
>On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Wayne wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:27:18 +0100
> > From: Wayne <wjohns at balita.ph>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > Subject: Re: Recipients addresses appearing since upgrade
> >
> > At 15:09 23/09/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Commenting out the section in Message.pm has eradicated the from and
> > to envelopes.
> >
> > I don't think I have / had two MailScanner.conf files I have always
> > used the RPM releases to upgrade, as far as I know the conf is
> > located at /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf.
> >
> > It seems it all started when I was getting double messages and it was
> > suggested I should use flock instead of posix for locking. My
> > Sendmail is 8.12. Could be a coincidence :-)
> >
> > Many thanks for your most valued help it is appreciated.
> >
> > - Wayne -
>
>I am glad to have been able to help, but I think only Julian will be able
>to get to the bottom of the original problem so it can be solved properly
>rather than just using this quick and dirty hack.
>
>Regards
>
>Jim Holland
>System Administrator
>MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>
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