Re: [exim] bug in exim 4.44 - Message sender with space in u…

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Author: Tony Finch
Date:  
To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: exim-users, Marc Haber
Subject: Re: [exim] bug in exim 4.44 - Message sender with space in user name leads to "spool format error"
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I fear that this may be tricky to fix - it feels as though
> we are going to have to be careful of strange side effects.


I expect the patch will be small, but time will be needed for a code
review to check handling of the username everywhere :-/

> Can this be reproduced with SMTP injection (of a sender address
> containing a space)?


No, the problem field is set to the exim user for messages arriving over
the network (first paragraph of subsection 1 of the SPOOL FILES chapter).

Tony.
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N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\
\N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}