Startup errors after major upgrade

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi
not sure the the brackets - () - are valid characters in the mail header
left hand side try removing those from the mail header line.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

2009/4/29 G. Armour Van Horn <vanhorn at whidbey.com>

> Okay, I just installed MailScanner 4.75.11 over an existing installation,
> which was 4.57.6. When I restarted MS I got a few complaints about spaces
> that should have been tabs in a couple of domain-specific rule files, which
> I took care of.
>
> Well, I guess not. I'm still getting this one:
>
> Possible syntax error on line 14 of /etc/MailScanner/filename.tlc.conf at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 1472
> Remember to separate fields with tab characters! at
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 1474
>
> Line 14 of that file is the "allow" line below, and the space after allow
> and the space between $ and Found are both single tabs.
>
> # Allow all other double file extensions. Specifically for
> ClickAndPledge.com
> allow   \.[a-z][a-z0-9]{2,3}\s*\.[a-z0-9]{3}$   Found possible filename
> hiding
>
>
> The main problem, I think, is this one:
>
> Your setting "Mail Header" contains illegal characters.
> This is most likely caused by your "%org-name%" setting
> which must not contain any spaces, "." or "_" characters
> as these are known to cause problems with many mail systems.
>
> I believe these are the applicable lines out of MailScanner.conf:
>
> %org-name% = DomainVanHorn
>
> Mail Header = X-%org-name%-MailScanner(vanguard):
>
> I sent myself a test message, and here is a chunk out of the source of the
> message I got back:
>
> Subject: test
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-DomainVanHorn-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more
> information
> X-DomainVanHorn-MailScanner-ID: n3T2mLYw025775
> X-DomainVanHorn-MailScanner(vanguard): Found to be clean
> X-DomainVanHorn-MailScanner-SpamCheck(vanguard): not spam,
>        SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.599, required 4,
>        autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60)
> X-DomainVanHorn-MailScanner-From: vanhorn at whidbey.com
> X-Spam-Status: No
> X-WNSpam-Score: 6.3
> X-WNSpam-Int: 63
> X-Spambayes-Classification: ham
> X-Spambayes-Spam-Probability: 0.00 (7)
> X-Spambayes-MailId: 1240953637
>
>
> Odd that my server and SpamBayes both say it's clean, but my ISP considered
> it spam (WNSpam at 6.3, on that system 3.5 is a good default for the
> cutoff.) But the MS headers seem to be working coherently, and without any
> spaces that I can see.
>
> Can these be ignored, or do I have to worry about them?
>
> Van
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