tag 658651 wontfix
thanks
brian m. carlson schrieb am Samstag, den 04. Februar 2012:
> 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.
We follow the postfix recommendations:
strict_8bitmime (default: no)
Enable both strict_7bit_headers and strict_8bitmime_body.
This feature should not be enabled on a general purpose mail server,
because it is likely to reject legitimate email.
And in my experience, this recommendation is valid.
Alex
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