Re: [EXIM] ETRN?

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Author: Ben Smithurst
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To: Sascha Pollok
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] ETRN?
Sascha Pollok wrote:

> is it true that only ETRN #addressframent works with Exim? A customer of
> mine got some Mailserver running on NT that sends a
> ETRN domainname which does not cause Exim to start a queue - is this right?


It seems so. (And how surprising, that it's some NT crap server that
can't be configured any differently to use #domain.)

This patch may help, but probably makes Exim non-RFC compliant in some
way.

diff -ur exim-2.053/src/smtp_in.c exim-2.053-bcps/src/smtp_in.c
--- exim-2.053/src/smtp_in.c    Mon Nov  9 17:01:45 1998
+++ exim-2.053-bcps/src/smtp_in.c    Thu Nov 12 20:18:46 1998
@@ -2727,6 +2738,9 @@
     since that is strictly the only kind of ETRN that can be implemented.
     Advance the pointer past the #. */


+    if (smtp_etrn_command == NULL && smtp_data[0] == '#') smtp_data++;
+
+#if 0
     if (smtp_etrn_command == NULL)
       {
       if (smtp_data[0] != '#')
@@ -2737,6 +2751,7 @@
         }
       else smtp_data++;
       }
+#endif


     /* If a command has been specified, set it up for execution. Place the
     argument string in the $value expansion variable. */


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