Re: [Exim] small funny bug found, probably ;)

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Author: vtmue
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] small funny bug found, probably ;)


Ok, I think I should get more sleep...
Just when I read my mail again there came s/th back to my mind that was
called mailbox format...

I hardly remember the last 20 minutes I spent more senseless :)

Rgrds,
Volker


On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 vtmue@??? wrote:

>
> Hi again,
>
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> I run 3.03 and tested the following with pine, dtmail and mail in
> different ways: any exim-processed mail becomes mutated in the way that a
> line beginning with a "From" becomes a ">From" if there are other
> characters following.
>
> So this "From" should remain untouched:
> From
>
> While this "From ..." gets changed:
> >From me to you (q.e.d)
>
> Meanwhile I reproduced the same behaviour with exim 1.92 (sending to a
> sendmail hosts and vice versa) which leads me to the thought that this is
> either a bug in exim or a platform-dependent problem on HP-UX across OS
> and compiler versions.
>
> Maybe Philip can shed some light on this.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Volker
> --
> V. T. Mueller     UCC Freiburg, Germany     vtmue (at) uni-freiburg.de

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> The UNIX Guru's View of Sex:
> # unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep
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V. T. Mueller     UCC Freiburg, Germany     vtmue (at) uni-freiburg.de


The UNIX Guru's View of Sex:
# unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep