"Remove These Headers" not working

[Julian Field]

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On 22/05/2009 18:11, Hilario Fochi Silveira wrote:
> Interesting !
> If it still accepts the old configuration way, I am really curious to 
> learn what happened in my box for it to stop accepting the old 
> configuration file. I will have to work on it this week end !
> When/How should I use the new regex feature in the 
> remove.headers.rules file?
What new regex feature? There never was one! Not in my book anyway. What 
you may have exploited due to poor syntax checking on my part was never 
in any way a supported feature, the feature is as documented in the 
MailScanner.conf file, ie. a space-separated list of header names.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hilário
>
> At 10:43 2009-05-22, you wrote:
>
>
>> On 22/05/2009 14:26, Hilario Fochi Silveira wrote:
>>> Good Morning
>>>
>>> Thus of course I have done some kind of mistake that I still did not 
>>> pinpoint. I will try again to double check where I may have done the 
>>> mistake.
>>>
>>> Is there any additional possibilities like user:group or permission 
>>> related issues?
>>> Is the following example line correct?
>>> To: *@domain1.com.br 
>>> \Confirm-Reading-To:|Delivery-Receipt-To:|Disposition-Notification-To:\
>> That's wrong. The list, as I said, should be a space separated list 
>> of header names. So you should just put it like that, such as
>> To: *@domain1.com.br Confirm-Reading-To: Delivery-Receipt-To: 
>> Disposition-Notification-To:
>>
>> No \ or | or anything like that at all.
>>>
>>> Till now I am just looking at the log tail for file load fails and 
>>> sending outside emails to myself with return receipts to check if it 
>>> is working.
>>> Is there a more intelligent way to test or generate more log details?
>>>
>>> Thanks for taking your time to help.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> *Hilario Fochi Silveira
>>> **Soliton Controles Industriais Ltda.
>>> Rua Alfredo Pujol, 1010 - Sao Paulo - SP - BRAZIL ZIP: 02017-002
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *At 05:40 2009-05-22, Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 20/05/2009 02:58, Hilario Fochi Silveira wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Installation details: RHEL5.3 with cPanel and MailScanner Front 
>>>>> End (configserver.com)
>>>>> MailScanner is running ok for more than one year.
>>>>> Our server uses the "Remove These Headers = 
>>>>> %rules-dir%/remove.headers.rules" setting to eliminate inbound 
>>>>> return receipts requests while allowing outbound receipts headers 
>>>>> to stay intact.
>>>>>
>>>>> Two weeks ago after upgrading to version MailScanner - v4.76.24 we 
>>>>> begun to notice that some inbound emails were asking for return 
>>>>> receipts.
>>>>>
>>>>> We played a lot with the rules file without success and as a 
>>>>> temporary solution, we replaced the per domain rules file with the 
>>>>> following single line instruction:
>>>>>
>>>>> Remove These Headers = 
>>>>> /Confirm-Reading-To:|Delivery-Receipt-To:|Disposition-Notification-To:|Errors-To:|MDRcpt-To:|MDSend-Notifications-To:|Read-Receipt-To:|Receipt-Requested-To:|Return-Receipt-To:|Status:|Smtp-Rcpt-To:|X-Acknowledge-To:|X-Confirm-Reading-To:|X-IMAPBase:|X-IMAP:|X-Keywords:|X-Mozilla-Status:|X-Mozilla-Status2:|X-PMrqc:|X-Spam-Processed:|X-Status:|X-UID:|X-UIDL:/
>>>>>
>>>>> This solution is working, we have no receipts at all both inbound 
>>>>> and outbound, but we wish to regain the fine granularity control 
>>>>> we once had.
>>>> That should definitely not work, and it was a small bug that was 
>>>> allowing it to work. The spec in the MailScanner.conf file clearly 
>>>> states that:
>>>> # Each header should end in a ":", but MailScanner will add it if 
>>>> you forget.
>>>> # Headers should be separated by commas or spaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> The original rules file uses spaces to separate the headers.
>>>> That was correct.
>>>>> The typical per domain lines we had in the remove.headers.rules 
>>>>> file were:
>>>>>
>>>>> # For each domain:
>>>>> From: *@domain1.com.br X-Mozilla-Status: X-Mozilla-Status2: 
>>>>> X-Spam-Processed:
>>>>> To: *@domain1.com.br Confirm-Reading-To: Delivery-Receipt-To: 
>>>>> Disposition-Notification-To: Errors-To: MDRcpt-To: 
>>>>> MDSend-Notifications-To: Read-Receipt-To: Receipt-Requested-To: 
>>>>> Return-Receipt-To: Status: Smtp-Rcpt-To: X-Acknowledge-To: 
>>>>> X-Confirm-Reading-To: X-IMAPBase: X-IMAP: X-Keywords: 
>>>>> X-Mozilla-Status: X-Mozilla-Status2: X-PMrqc: X-Spam-Processed: 
>>>>> X-Status: X-UID: X-UIDL:
>>>>>
>>>>> Those instructions used worked ok with previous MailScanner versions.
>>>> And  I have just tried a system with a rules file very much like 
>>>> yours and it works just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, but I cannot reproduce the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Jules
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> Atenciosamente,
>
> *Hilário Fochi Silveira
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