Re: [Exim] Bug: BSMTP does not respect '-f<>'

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Olaf Titz
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Bug: BSMTP does not respect '-f<>'
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Olaf Titz wrote:

> As far as I can tell, this must have been in all versions of exim so far.
> The man page says,
>
>               If the  spe­
>               cial setting -f <> is used by an untrusted user, 


Not in the early versions. This feature was added at release 0.43.

> However, this does not work for BSMTP transports. A short look over
> the source tells that the pipe and appendfile drivers don't even have
> the code to recognize this.


Thanks for pointing this out. I clearly forgot about BSMTP when I added
the facility. I will fix this for the next release.

Philip

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