[Dovecot] Bad_MIME on vacation messages

[Stephen Vaughan]

Interesting topic.. I'm sure there will be a patch for it some time down the
track, I'm loyal to qmail, but in this instance (for the sake of ease), I'd
rather install postfix.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:

>  Hi Stephen,
>
> More of a reason to abandon qmail, also if your not aware, a number of
> qmail server are deferring mail lately because of the size header limit,
> with more and more sites singing their zones, it's becoming more apparent,
> it's not DNSSEC's fault either, qmail has long done this with other DNS
> requests,  for more enlightenment, see
> https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations, the thread is
> "DNSSEC and qmail"  (the last active thread)
>
> I think it's time you learnt postfix :)
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:18 +1100, Stephen Vaughan wrote:
>
>
> Yep, if I sent an email locally to the account, the vacation doesn't contain
> CRLF's, it's only when the emails are sent externally that they have them. I
> have a message sitting in the qmail queue which is destined for an external
> email address, and it has CRLF's.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Pascal Volk <
> user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org<user%2Bdovecot at localhost.localdomain.org>
> > wrote:
>
> > On 10/08/2009 01:57 AM Stephen Vaughan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I know I've brought this up before (see
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg20974.html) <http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg20974.html%29>, and I've
> > > since upgraded to 1.2.6, but our vacation messages are still being
> > rejected
> > > because of Bad_MIME.
> > >
> > > We are using Dovecot Sieve 0.1.12, the auto reply message contains ^M
> > > characters at the end of a few lines, they are only visable through vi,
> > > example:
> > >
> > > Received: from mail.domain.com (HELO alejandro.domain.com)
> > (123.123.123.123)
> > >   by mail.domain.com.au with SMTP; 7 Oct 2009 17:48:13 -0600
> > > Received: (qmail 3531 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2009 10:48:18 +1100
> > > Received: from unknown (HELO mail.domain.com.au) (192.168.200.10)
> > >   by alejandro.domain.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2009 10:48:18 +1100
> > > Received: (qmail 16185 invoked by uid 1007); 8 Oct 2009 10:48:17 +1100
> > > X-Sieve: Dovecot Sieve 0.1.12^M
> > > Message-ID: <dovecot-sieve-1254959297-930199-0 at max>^M
> > > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:48:17 +1100^M
> > > From: <clair at max.team.domain.com>
> > > To: <admin at domain.com.au>
> > > Subject: Out of office reply^M
> > > Auto-Submitted: auto-replied (vacation)^M
> > > Precedence: bulk^M
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0^M
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8^M
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit^M
> > >
> > > Is there someway to fix this? Pretty much every mail server is rejecting
> > the
> > > vacation email's.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > sounds interesting, but I can't reproduce it.
> > When you send an email to:
> >        dovecot_test + vacation-test @ localdomain . org
> > you will get an auto reply, without CRLFs in the mail header.
> >
> > Maybe qmail is converting the LFs to CRLFs in the mail header.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pascal
> > --
> > The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.0928213 at localdomain.org
> >
>
>
>
>
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> *Noel Butler*
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Best Regards,
Stephen