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Author: Oliver Fischer
Date:  
To: Sean Witham
CC: exim-users, info-cyrus
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Hi,

I got the same problem, but I was some how able to solve it. The simply
thing I have done, was to add the following to the spec of the transport:

prefix    = ""


... and everything was fine....

Hope it helps,

Oliver



On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Sean Witham wrote:

>
> I thought it was time to demonstrate my cyrus/exim ignorance. Would
> anyone like to say what is wrong with the headers generated by exim
> in the message below that would have caused cyrus to reject it ?
>
> I was creating a seperate director to handle a limited set of "top
> level" mailboxes in the cyrus tree. I already have a working
> cyrus_users director which using a cyrus_lmtp transport to deliver
> messages to user mailboxes. This uses an lmtp driver and the cyrus
> deliver program with the "-l" option.
>
> Not knowing any better I created a new director cirus_boxes and a new
> transport cyrus_pipe to handle a selected list of top level mailboxes
> in our cyrus tree. There may be a much simpler approach. The
> cyrus_pipe transport uses the pipe director and uses the cyrus
> deliver program again but with "-m $local_part".
> When I run the command by hand from a shell it seems to work fine but
> when exim uses the deliver command this way it rejects the message.
> Below is what was returned by exim. It looks as thought deliver has
> rejected a header in the message. The message I delivered by hand
> would not have included the headers generated by exim.
>
> Here is the cyrus_pipe transport from my configuration file:
> cyrus_pipe:
> driver = pipe
> command = "/usr/pkg/cyrus/bin/deliver -m $local_part"
> user = cyrus
> group = mail
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> return_output
> ignore_status = false
> temp_errors = 75
>
> On Monday 03 Dec 2001 6:17 pm, you wrote:
> > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software
> > (Exim).
> >
> > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of
> > its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following
> > address(es) failed:
> >
> >   bugs@???
> >     Child process of cyrus_pipe transport returned 65 (could mean
> > error in input data) from command: /usr/pkg/cyrus/bin/deliver

> >
> > The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
> >
> > ------ bugs@??? ------
> >
> > +bugs: Message contains invalid header
> >
> > ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers.
> > ------
> >
> > Return-path: <sean.witham@???>
> > Received: from host217-37-4-60.in-addr.btopenworld.com
> > ([217.37.4.60] helo=there) by esme.webscreen-technology.com with
> > smtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 16AxeH-0001km-00
> >     for bugs@???; Mon, 03 Dec 2001 18:17:01 +0000
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> >   charset="iso-8859-1"
> > From: Sean Witham <sean.witham@???>
> > Organization: Webscreen Technology Ltd
> > To: bugs@???
> > Subject: test 11
> > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:16:28 +0000
> > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1]
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > Message-Id: <E16AxeH-0001km-00@???>

> >
> >
> > test 11
>
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