Startup errors after major upgrade

[Julian Field]

On 29/04/2009 22:10, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
> Jules,
>
> To the first, you were dead on. I originally copied the lines from the 
> default filename rules and just changed "deny" to "allow". It didn't 
> generate any errors before.
>
> To the second, the error lists three characters that aren't allowed, 
> and I'm not using any of them. I didn't change the string, it's the 
> same as it has been for the two and a half years since this machine 
> was setup. It also failed with square brackets, and with just a 
> semi-colon before the server name. I ended up with this:
>    Mail Header = X-%org-name%-VanguardMailScanner:
>
> I really don't like confusing my server name with your product name, 
> but without at least some non-alpha character that works it's difficult.
You do have the option of removing the word "MailScanner" from that 
setting. The legal characters (from my code) are these:
_
a-z
A-Z
0-9
-

so you could also use X-%org-name%-Vanguard-MailScanner: for example. I 
play it safe as many mail systems are badly written and misbehave if you 
don't.
>
> Van
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>> On 29/04/2009 04:05, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
>>> 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
>> If you look at the other "allow" and "deny" lines, they have 2 
>> strings after the regexp. Both of which, in an allow, are normally 
>> "-" as they are not used. But there must be **2* of them!
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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):
>> Are () brackets allowed in mail header names? I don't think they are.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
>

Jules

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