[Mimedefang] strange eror syslogs MD-2.22/SA-2.43

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Martin J. Dellwo wrote:

> I set up a new mailserver using RedHat 8.0, sendmail 8.12.5, 
> mimedefang-2.22, and SpamAssassin-2.43,

> Oct 18 00:07:34 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: 
> Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
> preceding start byte) in transliteration (tr///) at 
> /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 3386, <IN> line 50.

This is a known issue with Perl 5.8.0 on Red Hat.

Simply put this near the beginning of the script which starts MIMEDefang:

LANG=C
export LANG

Regards,

David.