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When handling bounce emails, some SMTP servers don't like the / character

Bug #994370 reported by Hugh Davenport
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Mahara
Fix Released
Low
Hugh Davenport
Mahara 1.6.0

Bug Description

This is present in /lib/user.php, function generate_email_processing_address, the problem occurs when a certain userid, say 38910 is used which produces a base64 encoding with a / in it.

Postfix (and other SMTP servers) don't like this in the extension part of an email address. [1]

The solution would be to change the / character for another valid email address character that isn't in the base 64 encoding.

[1] - http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0501/1653.html

Revision history for this message
Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport) wrote :

https://reviews.mahara.org/1186

Changed in mahara:
status: New → Triaged
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Mahara Bot (dev-mahara) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/1186
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/0d0d3f70ce376a4bb9dde080c13b6a6bf7d3057d
Submitter: Richard Mansfield (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 0d0d3f70ce376a4bb9dde080c13b6a6bf7d3057d
Author: Hugh Davenport <email address hidden>
Date: Fri May 4 15:06:32 2012 +1200

    Fix problem with '/' in email addresses (bug #994370)

    Replace it with a '-' character

    Change-Id: I92dff41a592748695c59582f69c00f000f555832
    Signed-off-by: Hugh Davenport <email address hidden>

Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)
Changed in mahara:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport) wrote :

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Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)
tags: added: verp
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