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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Matthias Waffenschmidt
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Strange behaviour in batsched SMTP submission mode
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Matthias Waffenschmidt wrote:

> we are currently resubmitting mails into Exim that are scanned by
> SpamAssassin via batched SMTP. The usual setup if you don't scan at
> SMTP time.
>
> I now encountered a strange behaviour that I consider a bug:
>
> If the message does not contain a From: header, Exim adds one as the
> message is per definition locally generated. But the From: header
> holds the original envelope sender and the name of the user (from
> /etc/passwd) that reinjected the mail.


Reinject the mail from a trusted user, and use -F "" to specify an empty
name.

But yes, I don't think it should be mixing the original envelope sender
and the local user name. I'll check up on that.


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