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Enhancement #493

postfix: value of strict_mime_encoding_domain parameter

Added by Pierre-Louis Bonicoli almost 7 years ago. Updated almost 7 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Pierre-Louis Bonicoli
Category:
Service :: Mail
Start date:
2016-05-27
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Patch Available:
Confirmed:
Yes
Branch:
Entity:
DuckCorp
Security:
No
Help Needed:
No

Description

One user complained that he didn't received one mail sent by boutique-wifi@orange.com

The postfix log contains:
bq. /var/log/mail.log:May 26 20:10:13 orfeo postfix/cleanup28928: 3rFxyF5MZxz2J9G: reject: mime-error invalid message/* or multipart/* encoding domain: quoted-printable from relais-nor34.orange.com[80.12.70.34]; from=<> to=<>

The default value of Postfix parameter strict_mime_encoding_domain is no. The current value is yes. The Postfix documentation states:

This feature should not be enabled on a general purpose mail server, because it will reject mail after a single violation.

The command zgrep "reject: mime-error" /var/log/mail.log* allows to identify 11 rejected mails, possibly: 7 spams and 4 valid mails.

Duck, what do you think about using the default value for the @strict_mime_encoding_domain ?

History

#1

Updated by Marc Dequènes almost 7 years ago

I hate poorly written softwares. But I guess you're right we should be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.
The amount of rejected SPAMs is not that significant, so we won't load too much the pipeline and can change this setting.
Please not the ticket reference above the changed setting so that I'm not tempted to change it again.

#2

Updated by Pierre-Louis Bonicoli almost 7 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Security set to No
  • Help Needed set to No
Actions done on toushirou and orfeo:
  1. /etc/postfix/main.conf update value of strict_mime_encoding_domain:
    strict_mime_encoding_domain = yes

    was replaced by:
    # Keep default value for strict_mime_encoding_domain, see issue #493
strict_mime_encoding_domain = no
  2. take in account the modification
    /etc/init.d/postfix reload

Ansible configuration wasn't updated, there isn't a postfix/mail server role yet.

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