Re: [exim] Irritating blank messages

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Συντάκτης: Ian Eiloart
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Προς: Sam Michaels, Jethro R Binks
Υ/ο: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Irritating blank messages


--On 10 January 2006 13:39:55 -0500 Sam Michaels
<samthecomputerman@???> wrote:

> On 1/9/06, Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks@???> wrote:
>>
>> Recognising that Date: and From: are required by RFC2822, I can't see
>> that the above would be an 'unsafe' test .. can anyone else see any
>> potential difficulties?
>
>
> That was part of my spam checks but had to disable it because Microsoft
> Outlook is not RFC compliant in that respect. I haven't actually checked
> to see where it's failing, but one of these directives--although correct
> RFC wise--will bounce legit mails from Outlook:
>
> deny
>     message     = Your message does not conform to RFC2822 standard
>     log_message = message headers fail syntax check
>     !verify     = header_syntax

>
> deny
>     message     = Your message does not conform to RFC2822 standard
>     log_message = missing message headers
>     !hosts      = +relay_from_hosts
>     !senders    = :
>     condition   = ${if or {{!def:h_Message-ID:}{!def:h_Date:}}
> {true}{false}}

>
> Never bounces email from any other client...only MS Outlook.
>
> Sam


I think it must be the Message ID that's failing. We use header_syntax
checks, but have some Outlook users. Some Exchange servers leak messages
with bad header syntax, though ( I think).

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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS