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

[vieri at openmailbox.org]

On 2015-03-12 08:38, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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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?

If you don't mind, I'm sending the whole mimedefang-filter file as a 
text attachment.

Thanks,

Vieri
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