On 07.02.2021 19.46, Mikael Petersson wrote: > Nope. No non-ascii characters for my user account entry in /etc/passwd. > No non-ascii characters whatsoever as far as I can see. No e-mail > address is specified in my user account entry. > > Neither /etc/email-adresses nor /etc/email-addresses exist on my system. > I don't have any MTA installed.
Thank you for checking. > One thing that may stand out a bit in my /etc/passwd entry is my choice > of default shell. I run fish, /usr/bin/fish. But I got the same error > after changing to /bin/bash, running reportbug from a new login session The shell should not matter. The relevant code is here: https://sources.debian.org/src/reportbug/7.9.0/reportbug/utils.py/#L301 With the information you have provided, line 308 must have been reached without the bad 'ä' having been introduced into the emailaddr variable yet. This leaves only /etc/mailname and socket.getfqdn() as remaining possibilities?