Alex, > Environment : > - Ubuntu - 10.04.3 LTS > - Postfix - 2.7.0-1ubuntu0.2 > - Amavis - 1:2.6.4-1ubuntu5 > - Spam Assassin - 3.3.1-1 > - ClamAV - 0.96.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1.10.04.3 > > Symptoms - A couple of emails per day come through the system with empty > attachments. They have the following line in their header: > > X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, MIME error: error: part did not end > with expected boundary > > - I have not been able to reproduce the problem myself > - Problematic mails re-sent often come through without problem, ie with > the attachment > - The offending mails generate ClamAV quarantine files, but even these > don't contain the attachments > - If I receive the same emails at a different account on an unrelated > system I see the attachment perfectly well > - We see the same issue from a number of unrelated senders > > Sample header (anonymised): > > From [email protected] Tue May 15 07:41:14 2012 > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > X-Original-To: [email protected] > Delivered-To: [email protected] > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by mail.yyyyy.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170554C16E9; > Tue, 15 May 2012 07:41:14 +0200 (CEST) > X-Quarantine-ID: <Px1M0jVRJetN> > X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at yyyyy.com > X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, MIME error: error: part did not end > with expected boundary > X-Spam-Flag: NO > X-Spam-Score: -1.911 > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.911 tagged_above=-100 required=6.31 > tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] > autolearn=ham > Received: from mail.yyyyy.com ([127.0.0.1]) > by localhost (yyyyy.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) > with ESMTP id Px1M0jVRJetN; Tue, 15 May 2012 07:41:11 +0200 (CEST) > Received: by mail.yyyyy.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) > id BBE204C03D1; Tue, 15 May 2012 07:41:11 +0200 (CEST) > Received: from mail1.xxx.com (mail1.xxx.com [11.22.33.44]) > by mail.yyyyy.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EBC4C03D1; > Tue, 15 May 2012 07:41:11 +0200 (CEST) > From: XXXX XXXXX <[email protected]> > Subject: News > Thread-Topic: News > Thread-Index: Ac0yXHvsAZ0A5DlqQrO9zy68+EZRewAANCFg > Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 05:41:08 +0000 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > References: <[email protected]> > In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Accept-Language: de-CH, en-US > Content-Language: de-DE > X-MS-Has-Attach: yes > X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="_004_19D32E934240BC45AD953862CE86FA3701285833ASDJKFK" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Undisclosed recipients:; > X-Copyrighted-Material: None > > --_004_19D32E934240BC45AD953862CE86FA3701285833ASDJKFK > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="_004_19D32E934240BC45AD953862CE86FA3701285833ASDJKFK" > > --_004_19D32E934240BC45AD953862CE86FA3701285833ASDJKFK > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > .....
This seems to happen before a message reaches amavisd. > Received: by mail.yyyyy.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) So what is this thing that is re-injecting a message locally from userid 1002 ??? Mark
