HTML/Newsletters being received as unreadable code

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Jules,

Is the danger though that if somebody has put in a space instead of say a '-' then MS would just continue on its merry way.  Would it be better that MS does just not start, but reports out a error ?

You could even put in the error message the place in the documentation where it says how to set it correctly ;)

Regards,

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Steve Freegard wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> When you run MailScanner --lint, a polite warning is already shown, 
>> which I reckon is sufficient for that case. But when you run 
>> MailScanner - --debug, there was no obvious warning, so now you get 
>> this printed instead, which I think is obvious enough for nearly 
>> everyone (the rows of "*"s are included in the output) :
>> ************************************************************************
>> In MailScanner.conf, your "%org-name%" or "Mail Header" setting
>> contains spaces and/or other illegal characters.
>>
>> Including any spaces will break all your mail system.
>>
>> Otherwise, it should only contain characters from the set a-z, A-Z,
>> 0-9 and "-". While theoretically some other characters are allowed,
>> many commercial mail systems fail to handle them correctly.
>>
>> This is clearly noted in the MailScanner.conf file, immediately above
>> the %org-name% setting. Please read the documentation!
>> ************************************************************************
>>
>> Clear enough for you? :-)
>
>
> As this still requires someone to run --lint to get this warning 
> (which a newbie might skip) why not just do the equivalent of:
>
> $orgname =~ s/\s+/-/g
>
> That way they can't break their mail system accidentally.
I could, but what happens if they have upgraded their way from an early 
version and don't use %org-name%? It really needs doing to a whole bunch 
of settings which are used as header names.

I could try to find all the header settings and automatically apply it 
to all of the headers, I'll take a look at doing that.

Jules

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