Re: [exim] UTF8 support wreaking havoc with temporary deferr…

On 2018-07-05, Dean Brooks via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Thanks for the reply. The real problem here is the 4xx-style deferral response to a remote server that doesn't support UTF8. I'm surprised nobody else is running into this problem. A single message will halt all reliable deliveries to a remote domain in the default configuration.
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> I'll issue a bug report on this, thanks.

Are you doing queue runs in random order?

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> Dean Brooks
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> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 09:03:09AM +0200, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
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>> On 3 July 2018 17:32:23 CEST, Dean Brooks via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>> >However, Exim appears to still accept utf8 messages even if they aren't
>> >advertised at EHLO time. I assume this is due to misbehaving senders
>> >as these messages appear to all be spam.
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>> You should be able to inspect the SMTP mail command in the mail ACL. Presumably it has an smtputf8 modifier. Deny based on that.
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>> Probably you're right that Exim should do that for you; please raise a bug.
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>> Afraid I cannot think about the rest of the effects you describe as I'm away from my development facilities.
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>> Jeremy
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