Re: [EXIM] Trouble with "From ..."

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Moritz Both
CC: exim-users, Plate
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Trouble with "From ..."
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Moritz Both wrote:

> > it to port 25. If the email starts with a "From ..." line
> > 'exim' treats the whole message (header and body) as the
> > body of an email without headers and generates its own headers.
> > If I remove the first line 'exim' works as expected.
>
> As far as I understand, you should try to adjust the 'uucp_from_pattern'
> global configuration setting which is a regular expression which must match
> that line?


That is true for messages fed to Exim via the command line, but not via
port 25, which obeys the SMTP specification.

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