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  • From: Liam Kirsher <address@concealed>
  • To: sympa-users <address@concealed>
  • Subject: [sympa-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Spam still crashes Sympa on Message.pm:89
  • Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:50:37 -0700

BTW,

In the meantime I modified /etc/postfix/header_checks to include
# Don't allow non-printing characters in the From: field. Just reject
them here.
/^From:.*[^[:print:]]/ REJECT Non-printing character not allowed in From
field.

I think that should help.

Liam


Liam Kirsher wrote:
> I just tested with MailTools 1.77 and am getting the same results.
> What puzzles me is that testing with just the Message.pm package seems
> to work fine -- MailTools handles the bad header without a problem.
> So, I wonder what is different in the Sympa environment that causes it
> to have a problem.
> I did notice this warning in the sympa log during startup:
> Oct 9 13:37:45 pythagoras sympa(command)[3939]: Language::SetLang(),
> missing locale parameter
>
> Could differing locale definitions be a problem? I'm grasping at
> straws, here!
>
> Liam
>
> Rob McBroom wrote:
>
>> On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Olivier Salaün wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Given the error message your get, it seems that the call to
>>> Mail::Address->parse() makes Sympa process die.
>>> Could you please tell us what version of MailTools you are using?
>>>
>>> You will probably need to upgrade (or downgrade) MailTools...
>>>
>> We have been having this same problem for months. If anyone discovers
>> that a particular version of MailTools corrects this, please let the
>> list know. Thanks.
>>
>> ---
>> Rob McBroom
>> Systems Support Specialist II
>> OIT Enterprise Applications and Services
>> <http://faith.oit.gatech.edu/>
>> 404-385-0390
>> address@concealed
>> I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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Liam Kirsher
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