RE: [Exim] line with a single dot

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Author: Jean-Robert WIAME
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] line with a single dot
The email came from a SMTP connection to the exim server.And the email is
received with all parts complete on the exim server. The problem came from
the fact that if the email contain an attachment, I block it on the server
(save command in system filter) and the email is resend after some works by
the command :
/usr/sbin/exim -bm $sender_address < /$blocked_dir/$message_id
Is there another way to resend a saved mail then? (because I think that the
problem came from this command)
If there is no attachment, the complete mail is delivered to the recipients.
Thanks for the help

Jean-Robert Wiame

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [mailto:exim@lists.colondot.net]
Sent: lundi 28 janvier 2002 10:28
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] line with a single dot


On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:00:55AM +0100, Jean-Robert WIAME wrote:
> I can't do that, the email came from 'outside'


OK. Did the email come in from an SMTP connection, or did the "outside"
person inject it into your system locally.

If the former, then you might want to suggest that their SMTP-sender is
broken, and doesn't follow the standards, in the latter, perhaps you
want to re-look at how you're doing the injection.

> It's in the standard, ok, but, in the RFC of the Mime type, the boundary
> string is used to determine the body of the email. And there, exim don't
> look for it but cut the email before the end (which is maked by the

boundary
> string + '--' at the end of it)
> Thus for me, it's not compliant with the Mime Rfc, is it? Is it true?


The MIME RFC is not used by exim at all. It's used *entirely* by your
MUA. Exim gets data to send, it sends it. It is up to something else to
say what that data is. (OK, this is over-simplification, but YKWIM).

MBM

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Matthew Byng-Maddick         <mbm@???>
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