Re: [Exim] Possible Bug in exim 3.953

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Author: Ken Tucker
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Possible Bug in exim 3.953
Jochen

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 12:09, Jochen Erwied wrote:
> I just came across two strange things:
>
> a) When receiving messages from a Novell-Groupwise-System, sometimes one
> 'Received:'-line appears somewhere inside the body of the mail.
>
> It looks like only mails coming from this system are affected, no other
> mails have shown up with this behaviour. But I don't know how
> to reproduce it. Size of the messages varies, sometimes short,
> sometimes long with or without attachments.
>
> The mail contains an additional 'Received: from KPMX-MTA by
> mail.kieback-peter.de'. Nothing more, nothing less, exactly this
> single string.
>
> The problem appeared after upgrading from 3.34 to 3.953, messages
> before that date were received OK.
>

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> Maybe someone has experienced some similar behaviour (especially with
> the tcp_ack) and can provide some helpful information?


Have you changed Groupwise in any way?
We had the same problem but it was not Exim related (we run 3.22).
This is apparently a buglet with Groupwise, we received a fix from
Salford which solved the problem for us.

Ken
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