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I accidentally restarted qpsmtpd-forkserver while having
the following locale-related environment variables set:
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PERL_UNICODE=SDAL
The result was that all mails which were not decodable as UTF-8
mere mangled. I.e., mails with a content-transfer-encoding of
quoted-printable or base64 were fine (because then they only contain
ASCII characters and ASCII is a subset of UTF-8) as were mails with
charset UTF-8 and a content-transfer-encoding of 8bit. But mails with a
different charset (iso-8859-*) and 8bit content-transfer-encoding were
mangled.
A simple solution is to explicitely unset PERL_UNICODE (and maybe also
LANG and LC_*) in the startup scripts. I will do that in the next
release of the RPMs.
A real fix would probably be to explicitely call binmode ":raw" on all
filehandles, which need to read/write octets, not characters (I.e., at
least all the sockets, but probably also temporary files, pipes, etc.
(Sounds like a lot of work).
hp
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