Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Sometimes I receive messages from lists.debian.org that violate the 8BITMIME specification. In order for a mail to be sent with the 8BITMIME tag, it must be MIME. Sending messages that are not MIME (such as those lacking a MIME-Version header field) are not valid candidates for 8BITMIME.
For anti-spam reasons and for reasons of general Internet health and public order, my mail server does not accept 8bit messages that are not MIME (sendmail's 8bitmime=strict option), and so you get an SMTP rejection (and I receive an email) every time this occurs. I suspect this is true for other mail servers as well. Rejecting these invalid messages will likely decrease the amount of spam you receive. Regardless, sending valid data is to be encouraged. It would be nice if you made sure lists.debian.org does not emit ill-formed or invalid messages. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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