Package: reportbug Version: 4.5 Severity: normal I almost always use reportbug in direct SMTP mode, as I do not configure a local MTA on the systems I run it on, which usually are chroots.
The bug reports get submitted to rietz.debian.org, which does not adver- tise 8BITMIME in its EHLO response – yet reportbug fails to encode the eMail body with quoted-printable or base64. Then, rietz passes the messages to, for example, the *...@mirbsd.org servers, which do not advertise 8BITMIME either, but strip bit7 from incoming mail. This is mostly a historic setup, originally intended to “protect” the MDA and MUA. The message gets mangled badly (I’ve seen quite some bad ones). The mbox view on the Debian BTS clearly shows the 8bit characters, in this case UTF-8, in the mbox (RFC822) format. While RFC2822 may allow these things, RFC1652 (not obsoleted yet) explicitly states: If a server SMTP does not support the 8-bit MIME transport extension (either by not responding with code 250 to the EHLO command, or by not including the EHLO keyword value 8BITMIME in its response), then the client SMTP must not, under any circumstances, attempt to transfer a content which contains characters outside the US-ASCII octet range (hex 00-7F). Thus, reportbug MUST be fixed to encode the eMail body prior to sending. Please see ↓ as well: ‣ http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2009/07/cult-of-workarounds.html Note that this bug report contains quite some 「Unicode」 characters ☺ I w̲i̲l̲l̲ send the mail as received by my MX as a follow-up to this PR. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="/usr/bin/jupp" DEBEMAIL="Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de>" INTERFACE="text" ** /home/tg/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "4.4" mode expert ui text no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: t...@mirbsd.de" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-reportbug 4.5 Python modules for interacting wit reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) pn debsums <none> (no description available) pn dlocate <none> (no description available) ii exim4 4.69-11 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-11 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.9-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn python-gnome2-extras <none> (no description available) pn python-gtk2 <none> (no description available) pn python-urwid <none> (no description available) pn python-vte <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
