On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Margrit Lottmann wrote:
> An email was delivered from our exim-relay to their members.
> 2 decentral give reject messages:
>
> xxxx@???:
> SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
> host saturn.math.uni-magdeburg.de [141.44.75.38]:
> 553 Header Error
Well, isn't that a *really helpful* error message? Perhaps you should
contact the postmaster on that machine to find out if it logged any more
useful information as to what header line it didn't like.
> I think, the following line is the problem ??? !!! ???
> >>>>
> Received: from if0010. (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> by if0010.swisslife.ch (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id DAA28024;
> Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:16:14 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: sYM87RI0I@???
> DATE: 29 Mar 00 8:16:02 PM
> Message-ID: <D3SW427w2H9>
> SUBJECT: Automatic Offshore Bank Account? eee16
> >>>>
>
> My questions:
> :::::::::::::
> 1. my exim relay has received the given message for our list without
> error messages, but the following mta's from 2 member addresses
Exim does not try to be clever about the contents of headers, other than
those containing addresses when you have turned on the syntax checking
option. Also, Exim is 8-bit clean and doesn't object to 8-bit
characters.
> 2. Are there any rules to verify the sender-header-part of an email more
> exactly with exim ?
headers_sender_verify insists that there is one verifyable sender in the
headers; headers_check_syntax checks syntax of addresses. There are no
checks for Received, Message-Id, Date, or Subject or anything else.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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