Email rejected: postfix header charset=<NULL>

[ecorambler]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4
Webmin version	2.111
I’m migrating my working webmin/virtualmin server from Centos 7 to Ubuntu. postfix main.cf matches and webin postfix configuration matches on both servers. Configuration checks seem OK. Both postfix main.cf files use:
#header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks
I can send emails within the ubuntu server from one account to another internal account. Outgoing email is rejected due to charset set to NULL. I’m guessing ubuntu postfix 3.6.4 might require a different configuration than the centos postfix 2.10.1 but don’t know how the headers get set on either server. Any thoughts on what to check?

Ubuntu server test email:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

–bound1714059362
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=“altsbound1714059362”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

–altsbound1714059362
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Check all headers

–altsbound1714059362
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Sending the same message on the working Centos server shows:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

–bound1714059290
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Check default headers

–bound1714059290–

[ecorambler]

Solved, or at least a viable workaround. I was using webmin’s postfix server email composer which worked fine on the server I’m migrating from. I just noticed the original server composed in html mode while the new server defaulted to text mode for composing emails. Switching to html mode on the new server sends successfully and sets charset=UTF-8

[Joe]

Hmm, that’s probably a little bug-like, but sending mail from Webmin doesn’t happen very often, so I guess it doesn’t get a lot of attention.