On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Nick Waterman wrote:
> Over the weekend, one of our machines went down, which was bad enough,
> but to confuse matters even more, I've recieved about 50 of these
> messages... This is the full message, including all headers:
>
> From root Sun Sep 15 06:30 GMT 1996
> /home/roederer/ftp/guest: Bad address
>
>
> *************************************************
> Cron: The previous message is the standard output
> and standard error of one of your cron commands.
>
> Now, firstly exim seems to have assumed "/home/roederer/ftp/guest: Bad
> address" is some kind of header, which MIGHT be forgivable if cron's
> doing something odd, but why hasn't it added any of it's "recieved"
> headers and things? Date? From? To? Apparrently-To? Sender? anything?
It is a syntactically legal RF822 header! I've just tested exim with it,
and on the test it did add Date: and things, leaving the /home... line
as a header, as it must.
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Have you got a bin/mail or equivalent which can do final delivery??
> I guess that something has cheated and directly shoved mail into a
> mbox.
Me too.
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