Bug #38397 for qpsmtpd: qpsmtpd-forkserver doesn't like PERL_UNICODE

I accidentally restarted qpsmtpd-forkserver while having the following locale-related environment variables set: LC_COLLATE=POSIX LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PERL_UNICODE=SDAL The result was that all mails which were not decodable as UTF-8 mere mangled. I.e., mails with a content-transfer-encoding of quoted-printable or base64 were fine (because then they only contain ASCII characters and ASCII is a subset of UTF-8) as were mails with charset UTF-8 and a content-transfer-encoding of 8bit. But mails with a different charset (iso-8859-*) and 8bit content-transfer-encoding were mangled. A simple solution is to explicitely unset PERL_UNICODE (and maybe also LANG and LC_*) in the startup scripts. I will do that in the next release of the RPMs. A real fix would probably be to explicitely call binmode ":raw" on all filehandles, which need to read/write octets, not characters (I.e., at least all the sockets, but probably also temporary files, pipes, etc. (Sounds like a lot of work). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Ich sehe nun ein, dass Computer wenig |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | geeignet sind, um sich was zu merken. | | | hjp@hjp.at | __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Holger Lembke in dan-am