Re: [exim-dev] Strange Error after 4.50 upgrade ...

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Author: Keith E Smith
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To: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Strange Error after 4.50 upgrade ...
You are my hero :). Search did not turn this up.

Also just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work on Exim

--Keith

Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Keith E Smith wrote:
>
>
>>[keith@b0201]/opt/exim/spool/input<336>cat 1DRMfg-0004IR-Nu-H
>>1DRMfg-0004IR-Nu-H
>>nobody 99 -1
>
>
> I am preparing the 4.51 release. One of the fixes is this:
>
> PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where 
>       the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
>       noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.                   

>
> It looks like that is what caught you (see the "-1" above). The
> candidate code for 4.51 is available in a snapshot:
>
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-snapshot.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-snapshot.tar.gz.sig
>
> Alternatively, the patch (that was sent by a user) is below.
>
>