On Tue, March 16, 2010 5:08 am, Mark Martinec wrote:

> No they are not valid according to RFC 5322 (ex RFC 2822).
> Mail client should have encoded these characters according to RFC 2047.


Mark, Noel, thanks

yes, they're using a rather old mail client

> WHAT IS AN INVALID CHARACTER IN A MAIL HEADER SECTION?

> Noel Jones writes:
>> If you frequently receive legit mail with bad headers, turn
>> off header checking.
> True.  Or more selectively:

> $allowed_header_tests{'8bit'} = 0;

I've started with the above, thanks again

realistically, looking at the logs (unless I've used a wrong
expression...) not that many emails on this server fail the 'bad header'

# grep amavis /var/log/maillog* | grep BAD-H | wc
    130    3512   46880


-- 
Voytek


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