Re: [EXIM] header_fixup?

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Author: Philip Hazel
Date:  
To: Todd Jagger
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] header_fixup?
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Todd Jagger wrote:

> For some reason the header_fixup option isn't working for me.


> 1999-04-09 21:22:26 10VnPd-00009n-00 rejected from crius-origin.flash.net
> (crius.flash.net) [209.30.0.49]: synt
> ax error in header address: no local part in ""D. E. Ekstrom"
> <@flash.net>": return path is <kikuko@???>


If Exim encounters a syntax error in its search for a valid sender in
the headers, it fails with this error message.

> Recipients: ftdavis@???
> P Received: from crius-origin.flash.net ([209.30.0.49] helo=crius.flash.net)
>         by ns.overland.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1)
>         id 10VnPd-00009n-00
>         for ftdavis@???; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:22:26 -0500
> P Received: from pc1 (p238-245.atnt3.dialup.ftw1.flash.net [209.30.238.245])
>         by crius.flash.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA01920
>         for <ftdavis@???>; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:22:20 -0500 (CDT)
> I Message-ID: <000701be82f9$8d391ab0$f5ee1ed1@???>
> R Reply-To: "D. E. Ekstrom" <@flash.net>


That Reply-To: header contains a syntax error. That is what is provoking
the failure.

> F From: "D. E. Ekstrom" <kikuko@???>
> T To: <ftdavis@???>



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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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