On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:25:52 Charles Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Nauman Yousuf wrote:
> > Guys I am getting all my external domain emails tagged as SpamSpam
> > mail headers
> > X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Improper folded header field made up entirely
> > of whitespace (char 20 hex): Subject: ...?Q?Spam?=\n
> > =?utf-8?Q?Spam=0D=0A=20helo123?=\n \n
>
> Well, according to this, amavis doesn't like the fact that the 'Subject'
> header is made up of many spaces. Looks like the original subject was
> 'heloo123' plus a BUNCH of spaces. An MTA has 'folded' them properly, but
> AMAVIS considers this suspicious. Question would be, how did all those
> spaces get in there in the first place? Are you running the message
> through some sort of pre-process before sending it to SA?
>
> There are also some clues in the SA rule match "SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE".
> This suggests again, something is trying to encapsulate your subject
> before it gets to spamassassin. If this is happening on ALL your mail,
> then it is something in your front end.
You missed the point, it's not about 'many spaces' or 'trailing spaces',
but there was an illegal all-whitespace line in the header section,
just following the Subject, as reported:
Subject: ...?Q?Spam?=\n =?utf-8?Q?Spam=0D=0A=20h\
elo123?=\n \n
^^^^^
Mark
