Re: [exim] Invalid header lines

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:37 +0200, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> I have the strange problem that for some incoming mails, exim
> apparently messes up the header lines:
>
> [...]
> X-Spam-Status: No (-1.0 points)
> No (-1.0 points)
> [...]
>
> So the value of the spam status header is repeated on its own line.
> This causes the delivery to cyrus to fail.
>
> What can be the reason for this? I have the following header related
> options in my config:

I trust the following line was corrupted by your mail client:

> headers_remove = X-Spam-Score:X-Spam-Report:X-Spam-Checker-Version:X-Spam-Status:X-Spam-Le headers_add = X-Spam-Status: $h_x-836-spam-status

what does it really look like?

> Or is it possible that the mail is already delivered to exim with the
> broken line? If so, why doesn't exim refuse the mail?

Exim will see a non-header as the start of the body, and add an empty
line in front of it. so the message wasn't like this when it arrives
from the outside.

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Kjetil T.