[Mimedefang] Wide character in print at /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, vieri at openmailbox.org wrote:
> On 2015-03-10 20:20, vieri at openmailbox.org wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I noticed that a decade ago some users detected "Wide character in
>> print" messages in their mimedefang logs.
>> It was supposedly fixed by adding

>> export LC_ALL=C

>> in the mimedefang init script.
>> 
>> (perl unicode issue)
>> 
>> However, my Linux distro (Gentoo) runs the following in the mimedefang
>> init script:
>> 
>> LC_ALL=C
>> export LC_ALL
>> 
>> but I'm occasionally getting the "Wide character in print" messages.
>> 
>> I'm running v 2.75 and Perl 5.18.2.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>
> Hi again,
>
> Just wanted to add that I modified /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl for debugging 
> purposes:
>
> /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl:
>
> sub action_notify_sender ($) {
> [...]
>    if (open(FILE, ">>NOTIFICATION")) {
> <------>md_syslog('err', "action_notify_sender print FILE $msg");
> [...]
>
> If I check the logs, this is what I get (basically I have a custom filter 
> which calls action_notify_sender with the name of each attached file):
>
> action_notify_sender print FILE ComposicioÌ..pdf
>
> So mimedefang and perl are choking on non-ASCII characters with "Wide 
> character in print" messages.
>
> Unfortunately the consequence of all this is that some e-mail messages aren't 
> processed and are kept in the queue and not sent:
>
> Mar 11 18:19:38 mail1 mimedefang-multiplexor[31444]: A0C4A326EB1: Slave 1 
> stderr: open body: Invalid argument at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.2/MIME/Entity.pm line 1878.

Could you post your filter?

> Mar 11 18:19:38 mail1 mimedefang-multiplexor[31444]: Slave 1 died prematurely 
> -- check your filter rules

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Steffen Kaiser
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