Recipients addresses appearing since upgrade

Sat Sep 23 22:16:59 IST 2006

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:45:40PM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> <Top-posting on purpose>
> 
> Please guys, trim the unneeded part of the previous and avoid 
> top-posting in your posts.
> 
> Ugo
> 
> Wayne wrote:
> >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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