Re: [Exim] Rewriting sender address to null sender

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dave C.
CC: exim-users, Stephen Marquard
Subject: Re: [Exim] Rewriting sender address to null sender
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Dave C. wrote:

> > Ooops. Apologies. You had previously sent me more details - namely that
> > it was during a sender verify that this crash happens. I just hadn't
> > remembered that when I was working my way through the Exim work list.
> >
> > Time to take a break and go home, I think....
>
> Aha! I'm not mad! Someone else is seeing this problem as well. It took
> me 3 weeks to figure out why mailman wasnt able to send mail that
> catches a rewrite rule with flags FS set, that was rewriting to null
> sender.
>
> I was about to send the below. Hoping this can be fixed soon in a 4.25
> release, as I will have to wait for the 'control panel' vendor we use
> (which micromanages the entire server) to update the exim version they
> use before I will see it on the relevant servers.


It is fixed in the next release, which will be 4.30. If you are
desperate enough to need a patch before then, I can probably make one
for 4.24 (it's a one-line patch).

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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