header in email body

Tim · Dec 8, 2004

Here is a strange one.

One of my users receives a newsgroup email everyweek. For the last few
weeks the email has been received by her with a blank from, to and subject
feilds. In the body of the message the internet header is then displayed,
after this the valid email message starts. The internet header in the body
of the email message is not the same as the one in the actual internet header
(view -> options). Of the course the news group claims it is our problem.
We haven't changed anything and there are no other reported email problems.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] · Dec 11, 2004

What *does* View -> Options show as the header. My first guess is that
whoever is creating the newsletter is inserting a blank line *before* the
Internet headers. The first blank line, by Internet standards, marks the
end of the header fields.

Tim · Dec 13, 2004

Hi Jeff,

There is no blank line before the internet header. The header looks exactly
like one that works.

Thanks for your help.

Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] · Dec 14, 2004

There's got to be some difference between the two, or they'd display in the
same way. Could you cut the headers from the View -> Options and paste
them into a post? I'd like to see how they differ.

Tim · Dec 14, 2004

Here you go. It almost looks like the header is too long to fit so it
appends it in the email message. I haven't changed anything so this is
exactly how it looks. I was in contact with the sender and it looks like
when he sends the email it is fine but when I reply back to the message I get
this garbage.

This is the header in the message body:

X-SpamReason: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=
Received: (qmail 20207 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2004 17:11:03 -0000
Received: from cvcnt7.northislandcollege.ca (HELO cvcnt7.nic.bc.ca)
(142.25.79.27)
by server-13.tower-98.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2004 17:11:03 -0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Subject: RE: [LEE] test
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:11:04 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: [LEE] test
Thread-Index: AcThGnFY7uJXug6iQ5qddgFFZZx+QgAG7ScA
From: "Tim Turay" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dnslists.datatel.com
id iBDHB82n016248
Sender: [email protected]
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: [email protected]
List-Help:
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Info%20on%20list%20leetalk&body=info%20leetalk%0Aend>
List-Unsubscribe:
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Leaving%20list%20leetalk&body=unsubscribe%20leetalk%0Aend>
List-Subscribe:
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Joining%20list%20leetalk&body=subscribe%20leetalk%0Aend>
X-no-archive: yes
x-spam-status: Looks ok.
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on
cedar.itsd.gov.bc.ca
X-Spamassassin-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50
autolearn=disabled
version=3.0.1
X-Spam-Level:
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Dec 2004 17:11:14.0396 (UTC)
FILETIME=[C04CD1C0:01C4E136]

This is the header done from (view -> options):

Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
X-iHateSpam-Checked: Scanned by iHateSpam Server Edition. (187)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Received: from maple.itsd.gov.bc.ca ([142.32.11.109]) by cvcnt7.nic.bc.ca
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:13:58 -0800
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.181
Received: from dnslists.datatel.com (dnslists.datatel.com [198.3.133.3]) by
maple.itsd.gov.bc.ca (8.12.5-20030917/8.12.5) with ESMTP id iBDHDroP001603
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:13:54 -0800
Received: from dnslists.datatel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
dnslists.datatel.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id iBDHDq2n016270; Mon, 13
Dec 2004 12:13:52 -0500
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dnslists.datatel.com
(8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id iBDHDqCD016268; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:13:52 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: dnslists.datatel.com: majordom set sender to
[email protected] using -f
Received: from gateway.datatel.com (gateway [205.231.22.5]) by
dnslists.datatel.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id iBDHDq2n016265 for
<[email protected]>; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:13:52 -0500
Received: from mail98.messagelabs.com (mail98.messagelabs.com
[216.82.244.147]) by gateway.datatel.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id
iBDHDptu028659 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:13:51 -0500
X-VirusChecked: Checked
X-Env-Sender: [email protected]
X-Msg-Ref: server-3.tower-98.messagelabs.com!1102958030!1080519!1
X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.2; banners=-,-,-
X-Originating-IP: [142.25.79.27]
X-SpamReason: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=

Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] · Dec 14, 2004

I think that what's happening is that some anti-spam software (which seems
to be named "StarScan") is inserting header fields and for some reason
inserts a blank line. I think the software in question is running on the
submission server (i.e. the first server to get the message), but I don't
know how any of the anti-spam programs write their header fields so that's
just a guess. Of course, it looks as if there are three anti-spam programs
mucking with the message - iHateSpam, StarScan, and SpamAssassin - so it
could be any of the three that are messing up the header.

In any case, there is no "too large" for Internet headers for Outlook or
Exchange (well, there probably is, but it'll be more on the order of 64K or
so...) - the only reason that the headers would be split as is seen here is
if there were a blank line in them.

--
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Here you go. It almost looks like the header is too long to fit so it
appends it in the email message. I haven't changed anything so this is
exactly how it looks. I was in contact with the sender and it looks
like when he sends the email it is fine but when I reply back to the
message I get this garbage.

This is the header in the message body:

X-SpamReason: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=
Received: (qmail 20207 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2004 17:11:03 -0000
Received: from cvcnt7.northislandcollege.ca (HELO cvcnt7.nic.bc.ca)
(142.25.79.27)
by server-13.tower-98.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2004 17:11:03
-0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Subject: RE: [LEE] test
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:11:04 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: [LEE] test
Thread-Index: AcThGnFY7uJXug6iQ5qddgFFZZx+QgAG7ScA
From: "Tim Turay" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by
dnslists.datatel.com
id iBDHB82n016248
Sender: [email protected]
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: [email protected]
List-Help:

List-Unsubscribe:

List-Subscribe:

Jeff Stephenson said:
X-no-archive: yes
x-spam-status: Looks ok.
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on
cedar.itsd.gov.bc.ca
X-Spamassassin-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50
autolearn=disabled
version=3.0.1
X-Spam-Level:
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Dec 2004 17:11:14.0396 (UTC)
FILETIME=[C04CD1C0:01C4E136]

This is the header done from (view -> options):

Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
X-iHateSpam-Checked: Scanned by iHateSpam Server Edition. (187)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Received: from maple.itsd.gov.bc.ca ([142.32.11.109]) by cvcnt7.nic.bc.ca
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:13:58 -0800
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.181
Received: from dnslists.datatel.com (dnslists.datatel.com [198.3.133.3]) by
maple.itsd.gov.bc.ca (8.12.5-20030917/8.12.5) with ESMTP id iBDHDroP001603
for <[email protected]>; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:13:54 -0800
Received: from dnslists.datatel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
dnslists.datatel.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id iBDHDq2n016270; Mon, 13
Dec 2004 12:13:52 -0500
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dnslists.datatel.com
(8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id iBDHDqCD016268; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:13:52 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: dnslists.datatel.com: majordom set sender to
[email protected] using -f
Received: from gateway.datatel.com (gateway [205.231.22.5]) by
dnslists.datatel.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id iBDHDq2n016265 for
<[email protected]>; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:13:52 -0500
Received: from mail98.messagelabs.com (mail98.messagelabs.com
[216.82.244.147]) by gateway.datatel.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id
iBDHDptu028659 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:13:51 -0500
X-VirusChecked: Checked
X-Env-Sender: [email protected]
X-Msg-Ref: server-3.tower-98.messagelabs.com!1102958030!1080519!1
X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.2; banners=-,-,-
X-Originating-IP: [142.25.79.27]
X-SpamReason: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 tests=

Jeff Stephenson said:

There's got to be some difference between the two, or they'd display in the
same way. Could you cut the headers from the View -> Options and paste
them into a post? I'd like to see how they differ.

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