Re: [exim] A small inconsistency

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Author: Neil Youngman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] A small inconsistency
> Philip Hazel wrote

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Neil Youngman wrote:


> > > given the following pipe transport, the Envelope-To header
> > > just has a linefeed for the line ending, not CRLF (at least
> > > on Exim 4.66). This strikes me as inconsistent. Less polite
> > > people might call it a bug ;-)
> >
> > I got that wrong. The Envelope-To header is fine, it;s the initial
> > "From user@???" that's wrong.


> *That* is documented:


> The contents of the message_prefix and message_suffix options are
> written verbatim, so must contain their own carriage return characters
> if these are needed. Since the default values for both message_prefix
> and message_suffix end with a single linefeed, their values must be
> changed to end with "\r\n" if use_crlf is set.


Ah yes. I didn't realise the From line was set by the message_prefix option. I should have looked more carefully at that bit.

Neil