Re: How can I avoid mime 8-bit errors in incoming emails

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How can I avoid mime 8-bit errors in incoming e...
\ Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy (15 May 2007)
. \ Victor Duchovni (15 May 2007)
. \ Noel Jones (15 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: How can I avoid mime 8-bit errors in incoming emails
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Noel Jones
Date:	15 May 2007

At 01:37 PM 5/15/2007, Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy wrote:
>I have noticed that important emails are rejected by Postfix with the
>following error:
>May 15 09:46:11 mail postfix/cleanup[10024]: EDB4029F9B7: reject: mime-error
>improper use of 8-bit data in message body: Reisedaten f?r: D
>UQUESNOY / Jean-Gabriel MR from localhost[127.0.0.1];
>from=<sender> to=<duke>

...

>strict_8bitmime = yes

The default for the above parameter is no.

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#strict_8bitmime
says in part: "This feature should not be enabled on a general
purpose mail server, because it is likely to reject legitimate email. "

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Noel Jones