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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We have a multi billion dollar company that sends us automated payment</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">emails, when they pay invoices.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Each of their automated emails get rejected and bounced with the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">following message:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: XXXXXXXXX ACH PAYMENT</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sent: 12/27/2007 10:01 AM</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The following recipient(s) could not be reached:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">lmccloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com on 12/27/2007 11:01 AM</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The message contains a content type that is not supported</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">< servername #5.6.0 smtp; 554 5.6.0 Message with invalid header</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">rejected, id=13057-02 - Non-encoded 8-bit data (char FD hex) in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">message header 'Date': Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:01:08 -0500</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">\375CDT\250\n></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In my amavisd virusmails here are the applicable lines in the bad</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">header rejected email:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SUBJECT: ACH PAYMENT</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:01:08 -0500 <FD>CDT<A8></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">x-Mailer: JES2Mail Copyright LaBayne & Associates Inc.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Message-Id: <1198771268000801157@></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char FD hex) in message heade</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">r 'Date': Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:01:08 -0500 \375CDT\250\n</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Note in the Date: line the special characters <FD> and <A8>. Is there</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">any way to strip these out, or better, ignore them?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Also note, any normal email, sent from a person is NOT bounced, as</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">they are on a different email system.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks for any help.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jeff Walls</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jeffrey Walls</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">IT Manager</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Brown Transmission and Bearing Co.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PO Box 11117</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Lancaster PA 17605-1117</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">717 295-9200 ext 214</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">717 295-9025 fax</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.browntransmission.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.browntransmission.com</FONT></U></A>
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