Problems with TB receipts and amavis

Dear users,
I have a mailserver (i386) with etch and amavisd-new
2.4.2-6.1. The only
locales I have generated is en_US ISO-8859-1. On the client
side I have
Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 with french localisation.

Whenever a mail asks for a return receipt (accusé de
réception) and
Thunderbird sends it, amavis mark this as a message with BAD
HEADER.
This is what I read in the quarantined mail header:

X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char E9
hex): Subject:
Accus351 de r351ception (...

For the moment I solved the problem by setting D_PASS as
default policy
for banned messages, but I would like to understand why this
happens. Is
this a TB issue or a configuration problem of amavis? I use
Thunderbird
also in other languages (italian, english) and I've never
experienced
such problem (maybe because in the receipt there are no
stressed vowels...)


Any help is appreciated.



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Alessandro,

> I have a mailserver (i386) with etch and amavisd-new
2.4.2-6.1. The only
> locales I have generated is en_US ISO-8859-1. On the
client side I have
> Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 with french localisation.
>
> Whenever a mail asks for a return receipt (accusé de
réception) and
> Thunderbird sends it, amavis mark this as a message
with BAD HEADER.
> This is what I read in the quarantined mail header:
>
> X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char
E9 hex): Subject:
> Accus351 de r351ception (...

Seems to be a known TB bug, first reported on 2004-08:
  Bug 254149 – Bad codification of the 'Receipt
Notification' subject

  h
ttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254149

It wouldn't hurt to add a comment to that bug report,
stating the latest version of TB with the bug.

> For the moment I solved the problem by setting D_PASS
as default policy
> for banned messages, but I would like to understand why
this happens. Is
> this a TB issue or a configuration problem of amavis? I
use Thunderbird
> also in other languages (italian, english) and I've
never experienced
> such problem (maybe because in the receipt there are no
stressed vowels...)

It is not a 'banned' message, but is a 'bad header message'.
The $final_bad_header_destiny is D_PASS by default.

  Mark

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Alessandro wrote:

> Dear users,
> I have a mailserver (i386) with etch and amavisd-new
2.4.2-6.1. The only
> locales I have generated is en_US ISO-8859-1. On the
client side I have
> Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 with french localisation.

> Whenever a mail asks for a return receipt (accusé de
réception) and
> Thunderbird sends it, amavis mark this as a message
with BAD HEADER.
> This is what I read in the quarantined mail header:

> X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char
E9 hex): Subject:
> Accus351 de r351ception (...

> For the moment I solved the problem by setting D_PASS
as default policy
> for banned messages, but I would like to understand why
this happens. Is
> this a TB issue or a configuration problem of amavis? I
use Thunderbird
> also in other languages (italian, english) and I've
never experienced
> such problem (maybe because in the receipt there are no
stressed vowels...)

> Any help is appreciated.

I think this applies:

http://marc.info/?l=amavis-user&m=115715504201088

I fired up Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 and sent a message.

The header shows:
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?accus=E9_de_r=E9ception?=

My MUA displayed:
accusé de réception

Gary V



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Gary V wrote:
> I fired up Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 and sent a message.
> 
> The header shows:
> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?accus=E9_de_r=E9ception?=
> 
> My MUA displayed:
> accusé de réception

The problem is not in the header of sent mail, but in the
receipt to 
this. If it'd be possible to manipulate the header of such
receipts, the 
problem could be bypassed.

Regards.


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Alessandro wrote:

> Gary V wrote:
>> I fired up Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 and sent a
message.
>> 
>> The header shows:
>> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?accus=E9_de_r=E9ception?=
>> 
>> My MUA displayed:
>> accusé de réception

> The problem is not in the header of sent mail, but in
the receipt to 
> this. If it'd be possible to manipulate the header of
such receipts, the 
> problem could be bypassed.

> Regards.

Indeed, I see Mark found that there is a bug in TB regarding
receipts.

Gary V



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