Hi Thorsten, thanks for the report. disclaimer: I'm not a MUA/MTA expert.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 15:51, Thorsten Glaser<[email protected]> 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 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 – yet reportbug fails to encode the > eMail body with quoted-printable or base64. > > Then, rietz passes the messages to, for example, the *[email protected] > servers, which do not advertise 8BITMIME either, but strip bit7 from > incoming mail. This is mostly a historic setup, originally intended > to “protect” the MDA and MUA. The message gets mangled badly (I’ve > seen quite some bad ones). > > The mbox view on the Debian BTS clearly shows the 8bit characters, > in this case UTF-8, in the mbox (RFC822) format. While RFC2822 may > allow these things, RFC1652 (not obsoleted yet) explicitly states: > > If a server SMTP does not support the 8-bit MIME transport extension > (either by not responding with code 250 to the EHLO command, or by > not including the EHLO keyword value 8BITMIME in its response), then > the client SMTP must not, under any circumstances, attempt to > transfer a content which contains characters outside the US-ASCII > octet range (hex 00-7F). > > Thus, reportbug MUST be fixed to encode the eMail body prior to sending. so: - should we encode using quoted-printable or base64? - should we encode only when sending to reportbug.d.o (the default smtp host) or to any other smtp? - what if an encoded message is sent to an 8bit (we're in 2009 and we're still talking about 8/7 bit stuff...) capable smtp host? - is there a way to programmatically identify 8bit capable smtp host from ehlo message? > Please see ↓ as well: > ‣ http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2009/07/cult-of-workarounds.html > > Note that this bug report contains quite some 「Unicode」 characters ☺ > I w̲i̲l̲l̲ send the mail as received by my MX as a follow-up to this PR. and I see them correctly. -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
