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Re: Strange accumulation of "mime-error invalid message/* or multipart/* encoding domain" from aol.com!
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt
charite.de)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 06:43:13 CDT
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> > A user reported that aol.com mail was being blocked with:
> >
> > Sep 17 19:35:52 mail postfix/cleanup[24076]: E6106165F9B: reject: mime-error invalid message/* or multipart/* encoding domain:
> > quoted-printable from imo-m28.mx.aol.com[64.12.137.9]; from=<senderaol.com> to=<recipientcharite.de>
> >
> > I checked my logs and found that we had rejections due to this before,
> > but NOT from aol.com hosts or addresses.
> >
> > I grepped my logs and found:
> >
> > # zgrep -h "encoding domain" 2006-08-*/mail.log.gz| grep aol.com |wc -l
> > 0
> > # zgrep -h "encoding domain" 2006-09-*/mail.log.gz| grep aol.com |wc -l
> > 240
> >
> > which I think is strange.
>
> Postfix does not strictly enforce MIME protocols by default.
>
> The logging suggests that AOL does not, either, and that the
> offending messages were created by broken client software.
Alas, aol.com has fixed their software a few days ago.
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Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de) spamtrapcharite.de
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