On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:02:37AM -0800, David Jonas wrote: > > What version of Postfix are you using? > > 2.3.8 and 2.4.6-- yea, we're a little behind. Perhaps I'll bring us up > to 2.5 today.
I am not aware of any "transparency" issues in either of those releases. You don't need to upgrade. There was once an undesirable interaction between "transparency" and 8-bit to 7-bit conversion, but that was in Postfix 2.0 snapshot (at the time called 1.1.N-YYYYMMDD) releases. This was fixed before 2.0.0. > >> @@ -92,6 +83,7 @@ > >> -=20 > >> +.=20 > > > > Most likely Ebay sending software fails to implement RFC 821/2821/5281 > > correctly: > > > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.2 > > > > not much you can do about that. Postfix can't possibly know all > > the places in which the Ebay software screwed up. > > > > The RFC is quite clear, leading "." characters in SMTP are stripped > > regardless of the following character. Some MTAs only trim "." when > > the next character is also a ".", but this violates the RFC. > > I will attempt to file a bug with eBay/PayPal. Thanks. I'm going to try > to set up a clean environment (no processing at all) to make sure this > is definitely real and not just a side effect. Nothing touches the body > right now, but the message does get juggled a bit before being sent out > again. A tcpdump capturing the SMTP traffic from EBAY should show the lack of propper "dot-stuffing" in their sending engine. If they do it correctly, perhaps you have content filters or down-stream SMTP senders that are broken. What software other than Postfix do the messages traverse before forwarding? -- Viktor. Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.
