Email bad headers

[egs]

For a little while we've been recieving emails sent from whmcs which contain "Improper use of control character"

 

The header of the email will look something like :

 

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WARNING: bad headers - Improper use of control character (char 0D hex): Date:

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 01:49:59 +0100\r\n Improper use of control character (char 0D

hex): From: ...e Servers <billing@EMAILADDRESS>\r\n Improper use

of control character (char 0D hex): Message-ID:

...8e4fc33002ffc2@EMAILADDRESS>\r\n Improper use of control

character (char 0D hex): X-Priority: 3\r\n Improper use of control character

(char 0D hex): X-Mailer: ...r (phpmailer.codeworxtech.com) [version 2.3]\r\n

Improper use of control character (char 0D hex): MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n

Improper use of control character (char 0D hex): Content-Type:

multipart/alternative;\r\n\tboundary="b1_[...]

 

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To be honest I'd just hadn't gotten around to correcting the issue because the email was still attached.

 

After a quick look it became obvious that amavisd-new was flagging an error up and as such tagging a custom header to warn us of it.

 

after updating the version of phpmailer that whmcs users everything is working again and no more incorrect headers.

 

This isn't a whmcs error but a phpmailer one.

 

If you get the problem just update the files

 

<whmcs path>/includes/class.phpmailer.php

<whmcs path>/includes/class.smtp.php

 

with the latest version located http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=phpmailer

 

If this has been posted before then sorry I couldn't find it by searching.

 

Hope this helps.

 

p.s. if you find any spelling mistakes you can keep them, it's late and I'm tired.

[HerrZ]

Important!

 

This isn't a whmcs error but a phpmailer one.

 

If you get the problem just update the files

 

<whmcs path>/includes/class.phpmailer.php

<whmcs path>/includes/class.smtp.php

 

with the latest version located http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=phpmailer

You are right!

 

<whmcs path>/includes/class.phpmailer.php

PHPmailer v2.3 creates Emailheaders with blank lines.

for example Outlook 2000 doesnt like this

 

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Update class.phpmailer.php to version 5.0.2.