Hi, after about 10 years of using amavis quite without major problems I
am now facing a strange issue.
We run "amavisd-new-2.7.0-pre14" on a fedora system defaulting to UTF-8.
Since some time we have users complaining about docx documents that
cannot be sent (but not all docx documents have this problem). When
looking into the amavisd log, I see
Mar 29 17:17:27 xxx amavis[21041]: (21041-02) Checking: 9oiHPxyAyzpd
[80.153.159.39] <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Mar 29 17:17:28 xxx amavis[21041]: (21041-02) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail:
check-banned FAILED: Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at
/usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 4820.
Mar 29 17:17:28 xxx amavis[21041]: (21041-02) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in
/var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20110329T171654-21041-6eGAXmsw
When looking at the eMail I cannot see real problems.
I already found a hint that amavisd should not run in an UTF8
environment and set some environment variables accordingly, see the
amavisd start line:
/usr/local/sbin/amavisd at montecristo.is-ol.de
amavisd-new-2.7.0-pre14 (20110203), Unicode aware, LC_ALL="C", LANG="C"
... but still the only way to avoid the documents ending up as unsent
mail is to disable banned checking altogether.
Our perl version is
perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
What can I do to diagnose this further? Or does anybody have an idea
what is going on here? It looks like it is specific to this environment
as we have similar setups without this problem.
Thank you for a hint,
Jakob Curdes
