System: AlmaLinux release 9.2
Relevant rpm-packages:
python3-3.9.16-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 python3-libs-3.9.16-1.el9_2.1.x86_64 kolab-16.0.1-50.2.el9.kolab_16.x86_64 pykolab-0.9.0-10.2.el9.kolab_16.noarch pykolab-xml-0.9.0-10.2.el9.kolab_16.noarch wallace-0.9.0-10.2.el9.kolab_16.noarch
8bit encoded utf-8 mails are held back in /var/spool/pykolab/wallace/invitationpolicy/incoming and no bounces or delayed delivery notifications are send
the pylog shows
2023-07-06 14:37:29,901 pykolab.wallace/modules ERROR [14221] tmpp4vq8x3o smtplib - Unknown error occurred: UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', 'X-Virus-Scanned: amavis at la-bw.de\r\nX-Spam-Flag: NO\r\nX-Spam-Score: -0.799\r\nX-Spam-Level: \r\nX-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.799 tagged_above=-10 required=6.2\r\n tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1,\r\n RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001,\r\n TVD_SPACE_RATIO=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no\r\nAuthentication-Results: kolab-test.la-bw.de (amavis); dkim=pass (2048-bit key)\r\n header.d=uni-tuebingen.de\r\nReceived: from mx03.uni-tuebingen.de (mx03.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.5.213])\r\n\tby kolab-test.la-bw.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E0BE2083313\r\n\tfor <michael.menge@kolab-test.la-bw.de>; Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:29:06 +0200 (CEST)\r\nReceived: from webmail2.uni-tuebingen.de (webmail2.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.5.195])\r\n\tby mx03.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8233A20C5ECB\r\n\tfor <michael.menge@kolab-test.la-bw.de>; Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:29:06 +0200 (CEST)\r\nDKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx03.uni-tuebingen.de 8233A20C5ECB\r\nDKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=uni-tuebingen.de;\r\n\ts=20211202prod; t=1688034546;\r\n\tbh=ThiDwRAn565i8l6j5DBx01nxYUx/SAWpj/oSVJVbsBQ=;\r\n\th=Date:From:To:Subject:From;\r\n\tb=gVlv1mLJBFUrQkAFIJMkt6pUeP2wBNViomGY1MxP1ELL89ayEW5URVrzi2OcKMnHL\r\n\t Mo90CqloroOQd0E24e7UpXvedbzh8zaxuJlZdmYeY3cle19mQ2mQ/1G3MdhCy/bHBh\r\n\t WLbM6FXBJ02+DpUPRyWc2OgOMmwxgU0NGiDmC0Kbgdkyc/eG2dGOLhmk95OQzz76ur\r\n\t AucEv8o78qkrgckeZ0ucwNd+04BdoEJqUmrxfNr4nyRleIOEOe7mHsXRVN/XrB49hD\r\n\t hMkUrXwKKby3BHpk2OH8rxCpiCbtzZ6AZTU7lKo/kGMPx3M5BhY63hsswmeSglSm4n\r\n\t cQl4SVFqp4MWw==\r\nReceived: from maxwell.wi113.uni-tuebingen.de\r\n (maxwell.wi113.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.232.77]) by webmail.uni-tuebingen.de\r\n (Horde Framework) with HTTPS; Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:29:06 +0200\r\nDate: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:29:06 +0200\r\nMessage-ID: <20230629122906.Horde.49wBz0QiWviHsQ00Fr9Ok9V@webmail.uni-tuebingen.de>\r\nFrom: Michael Menge <michael.menge@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>\r\nTo: michael.menge@kolab-test.la-bw.de\r\nSubject: test3\r\nUser-Agent: Horde Application Framework 5\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes\r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Disposition: inline\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n\r\ntest\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nMichael Menge Tel.: (49) 7071 / 29-70316\r\nUniversität Tübingen Fax.: (49) 7071 / 29-5912\r\nZentrum für Datenverarbeitung mail: \r\nmichael.menge@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de\r\nWächterstraße 76\r\n72074 Tübingen\r\n', 2318, 2319, 'ordinal not in range(128)') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/wallace/modules.py", line 163, in _sendmail _response = smtp.sendmail(sender, recipients, msg) File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/smtplib.py", line 875, in sendmail msg = _fix_eols(msg).encode('ascii') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 2318: ordinal not in range(128)
The Mail file does not contain a "\xe4" (ä in iso-8859-1) character but a valid encoded utf-8 ä "c3a4"
[root@kolab-test ~]# file /var/spool/pykolab/wallace/invitationpolicy/incoming/tmpp4vq8x3o /var/spool/pykolab/wallace/invitationpolicy/incoming/tmpp4vq8x3o: UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF, LF line terminators [root@kolab-test ~]# hexdump -C /var/spool/pykolab/wallace/invitationpolicy/incoming/tmpp4vq8x3o | tail -n 19 * 000008e0 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 0a 4d 69 63 68 61 65 |---------.Michae| 000008f0 6c 20 4d 65 6e 67 65 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |l Menge | 00000900 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 00000910 20 54 65 6c 2e 3a 20 28 34 39 29 20 37 30 37 31 | Tel.: (49) 7071| 00000920 20 2f 20 32 39 2d 37 30 33 31 36 0a 55 6e 69 76 | / 29-70316.Univ| 00000930 65 72 73 69 74 c3 a4 74 20 54 c3 bc 62 69 6e 67 |ersit..t T..bing| 00000940 65 6e 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |en | 00000950 20 20 20 20 20 46 61 78 2e 3a 20 28 34 39 29 20 | Fax.: (49) | 00000960 37 30 37 31 20 2f 20 32 39 2d 35 39 31 32 0a 5a |7071 / 29-5912.Z| 00000970 65 6e 74 72 75 6d 20 66 c3 bc 72 20 44 61 74 65 |entrum f..r Date| 00000980 6e 76 65 72 61 72 62 65 69 74 75 6e 67 20 20 20 |nverarbeitung | 00000990 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 6d 61 69 6c 3a 20 20 0a 6d | mail: .m| 000009a0 69 63 68 61 65 6c 2e 6d 65 6e 67 65 40 7a 64 76 |ichael.menge@zdv| 000009b0 2e 75 6e 69 2d 74 75 65 62 69 6e 67 65 6e 2e 64 |.uni-tuebingen.d| 000009c0 65 0a 57 c3 a4 63 68 74 65 72 73 74 72 61 c3 9f |e.W..chterstra..| 000009d0 65 20 37 36 0a 37 32 30 37 34 20 54 c3 bc 62 69 |e 76.72074 T..bi| 000009e0 6e 67 65 6e 0a |ngen.| 000009e5