On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Rachel Moore wrote:
>
> > Earlier, a user accidentally put a "#" on the end of an email
> > address in the To: field, which made Exim 3.36 do the following:
> >
> > 2002-08-09 13:10:34 queue run: process 17081 crashed with signal
> > 11 while delivering 17d8ZN-0004QP-00
>
> I cannot reproduce this trivially. Neither with nor without the use of
> -t on the Exim command line.
I'm using FreeBSD, I don't know if that's relevant. I can
reproduce it on different machines.
> > bash-2.05a# exim -Mrm 17d8ZN-0004QP-00
> > Bus error
>
> That suggests the spool file got screwed up.
This happens each time I reproduce the problem.
> > I had to manually remove the message from the spool, after which
> > everything was OK again.
>
> Did you save the message? That is, the -H file?
Yes, I'll send it to you seperately.
> > With Exim 4.05, the # just results in the last letter of the email
> > address being removed, e.g.
> >
> > To: rachel@???#
> >
> > rachel@???
> > Unrouteable address
>
> Exactly how did you submit this message? Remember that # is a character
> that is significant to shells...
I used mutt, which submits it using "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi
recipient@address"
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Rachel Moore
*** rachel@??? ***
