--On Thursday, January 17, 2002 18:53:53 -0500 Sam Varshavchik <mrs...@courier-mta.com> wrote:

FWIW, I too would like to see an "officially" blessed solution to the RFC2045/RFC2047 issue. Meanwhile the FreeBSD port, as the very first option, presents:

[ ] Accept8bit "http://www.Courier-MTA.org/FAQ.html#esmtperr"

this option is not on by default. But those who get too many users complaining about "important" mail not getting through will hopefully be able to follow the URL and determine if they need to enable the patch below or not. My patch is not as elegant as the one Marcus Felipe Pereira <mar...@provedor.net> provided, but it gets the job done without adding extra config options or documentation. Once again I would much prefer to see this solved in the base distribution of courier.

Honestly, I couldn't care less if my user's mail client blows up. I just point them at the URL above and tell them that's what they asked for. That takes a lot less effort than explaining to them that I'm actually protecting them from badly formatted mail that might potentially blow up their client. All I get in reply is that "it used to work before and now it doesn't -- fix your broken server".

I believe RFC2045/RFC2047 policing belongs under the BOFH section of the config or anywhere for that matter where it's tweak-able after install and not just at build time. That would make most of these silly threads go away.

Mark, I'm not that well versed in Debian's package manager. But isn't it possible to take the configs for the "official" Debian Courier-MTA package, add an RFC2045/RFC2047 patch and create your own package. In most cases that will automate the handling of new versions with just a little overhead in effort. Perhaps the Debian maintainer of the Courier package would be willing to incorporate such a patch into the official Debian package.

I too run many production servers. As nice as it might be to have everything prepackaged just the way you like it in reality local modifications are just about always necessary. Automating those local tweaks is the only way to keeps one's sanity as the number of boxes grow.

-- Yarema

--- courier/submit2.C.orig Sat Dec 15 16:19:01 2001 +++ courier/submit2.C Mon Jan 14 20:32:21 2002 @@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ return (1); }

+#if !defined(RFC2045_ERR8BITACCEPT) if (rwrfcptr->rfcviolation & RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER) { rfcerr= SYSCONFDIR "/rfcerr2047.txt"; @@ -810,6 +811,7 @@ rfcerr= SYSCONFDIR "/rfcerr2045.txt"; dorewrite=1; } +#endif else if (rwrfcptr->rfcviolation & RFC2045_ERRBADBOUNDARY) { rfcerr= SYSCONFDIR "/rfcerr2046.txt";