A message I received failed BADHEADERS with a code of c00402e.This is explained as: Code: c004020e. The E-mail failed the BADHEADERS and SPAMHEADERS tests. This E-mail has a bogus Message-ID: header. It is possible that there are other problems, too -- if you fix the problem, and there are other problems, you can come back with the new code. Scott, as I am not versed in proper header formats, can you explain what it wrong?
Yes, I can. :)
"Clear", no. However, RFC 822 covers the format of the Message-ID: header in terms that are easy to understand if you know BNF backwards and forwards (which people who develop mail software should).Is there a clear explanation somewhere of what the proper headers should be?
>Received: from 63.113.162.42 [63.113.162.42] by mail.reliance.net
>(SMTPD32-7.13) id AF3B6B70082; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:46:35 -0800
The problem here is a mixed problem, kind of like the "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" paradox.Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The first problem is actually that the remote mailserver is broken, and claims to be a host called "63.113.162.42", but there is no such host (it should claim to be "[63.113.163.42]" if it is just claiming to be an IP). That's not valid. The second problem is that the E-mail was sent without a Message-ID: header, which is bad but technically legal (it's legal if there is a good reason for it).
The problem with the Message-ID: header is that IMail tried to make some sense of this mess. It saw that there was no Message-ID: header, so it added one. However, it trusted that the remote mailserver gave a valid hostname, which it did not -- and since it did not, it ended up breaking the Message-ID: header.
-Scott
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