On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Jim Gottlieb wrote:
> All incoming messages here are fine, except for those that originate or
> pass through our system in Japan. Since I changed over to exim, any
> message from Japan looks like this:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >From root@??? Wed Oct 29 08:41:14 1997
> Return-path: <root@???>
> Envelope-to: jimmy@???
> Delivery-date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:41:14 -0800
> Received: from slip.denwa.linc.or.jp [202.17.215.177]
> by sinden.info.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1)
> id 0xQbBA-0003QR-00; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:41:13 -0800
> From: root@???
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:41:13 -0800
> Status: OR
>
> >From root@??? Thu Oct 30 01:41:12 1997
> Received: by tokyo07.denwa.linc.or.jp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1)
> id m0xQb0O-0001MCC; Thu, 30 Oct 97 01:30 JST
> Message-Id: <m0xQb0O-0001MCC@???>
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 97 01:30 JST
> From: root@??? (Tokyo Admin)
> To: jimmy@???
> Subject: Tokyo VM
>
> [Message body here]
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Nothing on the Japan side has changed in years. Anyone have any idea
> what's going on? I don't see anything unusual in the logs.
Looks like some unexpected line of text that isn't a header is getting
sent with the message, causing Exim to think it has reached the body of
the message prematurely. My guess is the line
From root@??? Thu Oct 30 01:41:12 1997
Exim handles such leading lines only for non-smtp local messages, since
they contravene RFC 822. The comment in the code reads as follows:
WORMCAN. It turns out that smail, and presumably sendmail, accept leading
lines of the form
From ph10 Fri Jan 5 12:35 GMT 1996
in messages. The "mail" command on Solaris 2 sends such lines. I cannot
find any documentation of this, but for compatibility it had better be
accepted. Exim restricts it to the case of non-smtp messages, and
treats it as an alternative to the -f command line option. Thus it is
ignored except for trusted users or filter testing. Otherwise it is taken
as the sender address, unless -f was used (sendmail compatibility).
Philip
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