Bug#539157: direct SMTP send violates RFC1652 and sends unencoded 8-bit data

Package: reportbug Version: 4.5 Severity: normal I almost always use reportbug in direct SMTP mode, as I do not configure a local MTA on the systems I run it on, which usually are chroots. The bug reports get submitted to rietz.debian.org, which does not adver- tise 8BITMIME in its EHLO response

Bug#539157: direct SMTP send violates RFC1652 and sends unencoded 8-bit data

Dixi quod… Note that this bug report contains quite some cI wL2iL2lL2lL2 send the mail as received by my MX as a follow-up to this PR. Et voilà: see the attached file (I gzip’d it to retain integrity). //mirabilos -- Solange man keine schmutzigen Tricks macht, und ich meine *wirklich*

Bug#539157: direct SMTP send violates RFC1652 and sends unencoded 8-bit data

Hi Thorsten, thanks for the report. disclaimer: I'm not a MUA/MTA expert. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 15:51, Thorsten Glasert...@mirbsd.de wrote: Package: reportbug Version: 4.5 Severity: normal I almost always use reportbug in direct SMTP mode, as I do not configure a local MTA on the systems

Bug#539157: direct SMTP send violates RFC1652 and sends unencoded 8-bit data

Sandro Tosi dixit: Hi Thorsten, thanks for the report. Thanks for the quick response ☺ - should we encode using quoted-printable or base64? Depends. ASCII is usually better preserved using QP, Japanese (for example) with base64. As Debian bug reports tend to be (mostly) in English, I’d suggest