Package: flim Version: 1:1.14.9-4.1 Severity: important By accident it was discovered that the smtp client part of FLIM (smtp.el) does not comply strictly to the specs for SMTP Service Extensions (RFC1869) when using the 8BITMIME extension (RFC1652).
The 8BITMIME extension is activated on the client side by adding the parameter "BODY=8BITMIME" or "BODY=7BIT" to the MAIL FROM: command. The RFC for smtp service extensions states that the original MAIL FROM: command and added parameters are separated by a single space (ASCII 32). However due to a implementation glitch FLIM issues an extended MAIL FROM: command with the 8BITMIME parameter separated by /two/ spaces when using no other smtp extension that MAIL FROM: parameters. This causes trouble when the mta on the other end follows the mentioned specs strictly and refuses the ill formed MAIL FROM: command leaving a user unable to send messages. A user may circumvent the problem by disabling the use of the 8BITMIME extensions via Emacs' customization interface (M-x customize-variable RET smtp-use-8bitmime RET). For reference see the original thread in the english mailinglist for Wanderlust, a mail/news reader supporting IMAP for emacsen: http://lists.airs.net/wl-en/archive/201002/msg00035.html There is a patch at the end of the linked thread that fixes this problem and that will be rolled into debian soon hopyfully. Regards -- David -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages flim depends on: ii apel 10.7-3 portable library for emacsen ii emacs-snapshot [emacsen] 1:20100209-1 The GNU Emacs editor (development flim recommends no packages. Versions of packages flim suggests: ii semi 1.14.6+0.20070618-4 library to provide MIME feature fo pn wl | wl-beta <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
