[pmg-devel] applied: [PATCH pmg-api 1/2] utils: skip checking headers for non-ascii characters

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 23/01/2023 um 16:55 schrieb Stoiko Ivanov:
> the fix for smtputf8 enablement in
> 191e4709e99a5975fa66cf21847887566e108501 was a bit too eager and broke
> the mailflow of a few users, who have smtputf8 disabled in their
> postfix config (because their downstream servers do not support this):
> 
> The issue here is that the mails they process have had
> (non-rfc-compliant) non-ascii header contents, which used to work
> before the patch. The postfix smtputf8 howto explains quite well that
> postfix never cared too much about headers (or local-parts of
> addresses) before smtputf8 [1]
> ```
> Postfix already permitted UTF-8 in message header values and in
> address localparts. This does not change.
> ```
> 
> While the patch only ignores the headers and still could cause issues
> with non-ascii local-parts, those should occur far less frequently in
> the wild (none of the reporters in our forum had this).
> 
> tested with a mail with an Euro sign in a 'X-From:' header.
> 
> [0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/.120886/
> [1] https://www.postfix.org/SMTPUTF8_README.html#enabling
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  src/PMG/Utils.pm | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
>

applied, with slightly touched up commit message, mostly to denote that
this is a stop gap, thanks!