Hi! For a long time I thought this problem is due to limitation of mailx email submission program - when our users submit email message using mailx, their From: header (which is filled using getpwnam(), with proper First.M.Last) is not encoded properly but is left as plain 8-bit.
But today I found out it's postfix who's doing it - mails doesn't add From: header by default, it is postfix who's doing this. And the result is that numerous mail servers reject such emails, like: host mailly.debian.org[82.195.75.114] said: 550 improper use of 8-bit data in message header: message rejected (in reply to end of DATA command) I was sort of surprised it's postifx itself who generates such a broken message: From: Михаил Токарев <[email protected]> And while it's definitely true there's no encoding specified for the GECOS field in /etc/passwd, the common practice over last couple decades is to use utf8 in there. Also we've $LANG at submission which can be used too. Or failing that, we can tell postfix which encoding our GECOS field is, like using gecos_charset = foo. Shouldn't postfix at least try to generate valid email message in such case? Thanks, /mjt _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
