https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686436 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686436#c0 Summary: postfix bounces messages with improper use of 8-bit data in message body Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: toganm@dinamizm.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 SUSE/3.6.16-1.1 Firefox/3.6.16 when mail from poorly written applications that use 8-bit data arrrives postfix bounces the mail with a 550 message "550 5.6.0 improper use of 8-bit data in message body" According to http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html "strict_8bitmime" should not be enabled on a general purpose mail server, because it is likely to reject legitimate email. SuSEconfig.postfix follows this advice for all cases of POSTFIX_MDA except "cyrus" where it is set to yes Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Choose cyrus as POSTFIX_MDA in /etc/sysconfig/postfix and run SuSEconfig --module postfix 3. Actual Results: strict_8bitmime is set to yes 2. /usr/sbin/postconf -n strict_8bitmime to see new parameter and /usr/sbin/postconf -d strict_8bitmime for the default Expected Results: strict_8bitmime should not be enabled on a general purpose mail server, because it is likely to reject legitimate email. The offending code is in line 374 of /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.postfix $PCONF -e "strict_8bitmime = yes" this parameter is "no" in all other cases of POSTFIX_MDA -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.