On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Does exim pass its environment on to programs it spawns, e.g. for a
> pipe transport?
Specifically not for a pipe transport, which is probably the most
important case. It sets up a specific environment (see section 17.3). In
some other cases it doesn't do anything special.
> If so, this may affect folks who (knowingly or
> otherwise) depend on certain environment settings (e.g., PATH) in
> spawned programs.
>
> Not that such things ought to be depended on, but this may cause
> unexpected or unexplained behavior, and i thought it bore mentioning.
Yes indeed. Thank you. I'll put a comment in README.UPDATING about this.
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