On Sat, 31 May 1997, Pieter Immelman wrote:
> Not sure if it's just my outdated gcc 2.4.5 and 2.6.3, but I've found
> that without this patch to 1.61 and 1.62, my global message filter does
> weird things like freeze messages that does not match any of my filter
> rules (gcc 2.6.3 and Solaris 2.4) or just refuse to deliver anything
> when I have a global filter defined in "configure", as well as land up
> in a very bad mail loop (gcc 2.4.5 and SunOS 4.1.3_U1). Let me know if
> any of this (doesn't) makes sense. :)
It's a known bug, but thanks for your report anyway. The official patch is:
*** exim-1.62/src/filter.c Wed Apr 16 14:34:48 1997
--- filter.c Mon May 12 10:51:32 1997
***************
*** 1853,1858 ****
--- 1853,1859 ----
initialize to no error. Also initialize the line number, for error messages and
the log file variables. */
+ if (action != NULL) *action = SPECIAL_NONE;
special_action = action;
as_user = notroot;
no_log = forbid_log;
> ### snip ###
> --- src/deliver.c.orig Sat May 31 02:02:55 1997
> +++ src/deliver.c Sat May 31 01:58:12 1997
> @@ -1946,5 +1946,5 @@
> if (message_filter != NULL)
> {
> - int action;
> + int action = SPECIAL_NONE;
> BOOL delivered;
> char *error;
> ### snip ###
>
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