Recipients addresses appearing since upgrade

[Julian Field]

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Jim Holland wrote:
>>>>> 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
>
>   
Try replacing the first line of that if statement with this:
if (MailScanner::Config::Value('addenvto', $this) =~ /^[1\s]+$/) {

If the addenvto was blank, the condition would have matched. I have 
switched the order of the logic.

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