[Mimedefang] MimeDefang header changes not working sometimes

Jason Radford jasonml at iconimaging.net
Tue May 6 19:48:01 EDT 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003 13:39:53 -0400
"Fred Felgenhauer" <fred at fredf.com> wrote:

> Well, When obvious spam did not get tagged, I would ask my users to
> highlight them all and forward to me.  Outlook would then encapsulate
> them in a single message.  When I got the message, I would click on it,
> then click on an individual message, then click options and view the
> headers. Some messages would have the X-Scanned-By headers and others
> would not. Then I went back to the original message on the users
> machine,  and behold it DID have the X-Scanned-By header in it.  All's I
> can say at this point is somehow Exchange or Outlook is randomly
> stripping the X-Spam-Flag and X-Scanned-By headers out of the
> encapsulated messages in some cases...???


Just as a FYI, I'm having my users do the same thing and their outlook
mua is stripping out the X-spam/scanned headers on a forward when I get
them, straight pop3 no exchange.  

I'd guess it's an outlook behavior, I dont know if it can be modified
or not.

-Jason



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