Re: [Exim] Date header line not added in 4.30

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: Kevin Reed, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Date header line not added in 4.30
At 10:16 pm -0700 2003/12/21, Kevin Reed wrote:
>Giuliano Gavazzi said:
>> Since I upgraded exim from 4.14 to 4.30 I noticed that the messages
>> generated from some JSPs on my server do not get the Date header
>> added by exim.
>> From the docs it does not look like anything has changed since 4.14
>> in this regard (or has it?). spec.txt says:
>
> >From the ChangeLog for Exim 4.30:


doh, that teaches me to write at that unhealthy time (almost 4am
here). I did a grep on the docs directory but did not notice that,
and then I only searched NewStuff and spec.txt...

>56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to
>any incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only
>if the message originates locally, that is, if there is no
>associated remote host address.


yes, I wonder why this was changed, unfortunately this is not an easy
thing to search for in the list (like any header name). I found a
thread from the forth of this month regarding this subject, but not
the discussion that lead to the change.

> > 44.7 The Date: header line
>>
>> If a locally-generated message has no Date: header line, Exim adds
>> one, using |
>> the current date and time.
>>
>> but what does locally-generated mean exactly (my messages come over
>> SMTP after all, so I would not say they are locally generated)?
>
>Locally generated would be injected into exim on the command line which is
>not SMTP...


I guessed so.

Thanks to David for pointing out a simple ACL that I will adapt to my
case (that is to messages coming from the local host over tcp).

Thanks to all.

Giuliano
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