How to Remove X-headers

[Joost Waversveld]

/^XMime.*\:/   would match XMime<something> (and not X-Mime<something>)

The regular expression should be /^X-Mime.*\:/

Best regards,

Joost Waversveld

Alex Broens wrote:
> On 3/11/2009 10:50 PM, Glenn wrote:
>> We use MailScanner and Postfix on a mail gateway server and forward 
>> mail to an internal Microsoft Exchange 2003 server.  Evidently, 
>> enough X-headers have accumulated in an Exchange database to cause a 
>> problem, so we need to remove X-headers before they are forwarded to 
>> the Exchange server.
>>
>> There is a line in MailScanner.conf that allows us to name whatever 
>> headers we want to remove ("Remove These Headers"), but this raises 
>> some questions.  If we just blanket remove all X-headers, won't this 
>> defeat features of MailScanner that depend on MailScanner adding 
>> headers?
>>
>> According to hints in the MailScanner rules directory, we should be 
>> able to use regular Perl expresssions to create a ruleset to exclude 
>> certain headers from the delete list.  My problem is that I don't 
>> have a clue how to write regular Perl expressions.  From what I've 
>> read online, for example, the lines below should be equivalent, but 
>> when I use the Perl expression in the ruleset it doesn't work.
>>
>> From:  [ipaddress]  X-MimeOLE:    ##this removes the X-MimeOLE header
>>
>> From:  [ipaddress]  /^XMime.*\:/  ##this doesn't
>>
>> I know this isn't a Perl forum, but I'm hoping that someone who has 
>> tried this can enlighten me.  If I could just get a simple expression 
>> to work, I might be able to build what I need.  Thanks.   -Glenn.
>
> Before you start breaking MIME headers, who told you this or what MS 
> KB article covers this?
>

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Joost Waversveld