[Mimedefang] Errors in maillog

[Alexander Dalloz]

Hi!

> I just noticed a whole LOT of these messages in my maillog 
> file - I'm using version 2.34 on redhat 9.0. I have no custom 
> rules.  Can anyone tell me what's wrong? And more to the 
> point, how I fix it? 
> 
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> Jul 15 05:21:44 badlands mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 1 
> stderr: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 
> 249, <FILE> line 3. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected 
> continuation byte 0xbc, with no preceding start byte) in 
> substitution (s///) at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser.pm line 615, 
> <FILE> line 7. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected 
> continuation byte 0xbc, with no preceding start byte) in 
> substitution (s///) at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser.pm line 615, <FILE> line 7.
> -------------
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mike-

As mentioned more than one time here: disable UTF-8, at least for
mimedefang!

You can start mimedefang with LANG=C in command line, but in my eyes it is
in general a good idea to remove UTF-8 locales from /etc/sysconfig/i18n as
it confuses perl an slows down many other applications.

Alexander


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