I've been investigating a problem with "Format error in spool file"
that occurred on one of our systems earlier today. I'm able to
reproduce this as follows:
$ cat <<EOT | exim -N -t
From: Ray Miller <ray.miller@???>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:44:23 +0000 (GMT)
To: XXXX YYYYY ZZZZZZZZZ <"/dd.NOTES=CN$=XXXX YYYY
ZZZZZZZZZ$/O$=EWS$/C$=IT@EYI-EMEA/"@nowhere.com>
Subject: Test
Test message - please ignore.
EOT
This produces:
LOG: 0 MAIN
<= ray.miller@??? U=ray P=local S=585
[ray@bench:~]$ Exim version 3.12 debug level 1 uid=8 gid=8
probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
delivering message 14b0BO-0003fp-00
Format error in spool file 14b0BO-0003fp-00-H
LOG: 0 MAIN
Format error in spool file 14b0BO-0003fp-00-H: size=939
It's also reproducible with exim 3.16 and a quick scan of the
ChangeLog for 3.22 doesn't show up anything pertinent.
Is this a bug in exim or does the problem lie elsewhere?
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Ray Miller <ray.miller@???>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
