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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/