Keefe John wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I've been having a problem with exim and I've been pulling out my
> hair trying to figure it out. Basically what is happening is that when
> people send my server mail with strange From: headers the system has
> problems. Here's an example of a From: field that would cause a problem:
> From: "=?windows-1254?Q?Evg=F6r_Mobilya?=" evgormob@???. It seems to
> be related to From fields that have =? in them.
Not necesarily '?' in the original. More likely encoded with other-than 7-bit
ASCII and are not being handled as expected somewhere along the line.
I have just sent you a test message from one of my accounts that has Chinese
characters in the 'From:' header.
2009-05-18 03:47:41 [62092] 1M5top-000G9S-CV => keefe@???
F=<askbill@???> P=<askbill@???> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp
S=2829 H=mail.techwarepc.com [208.87.120.6]:25 X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 CV=no
DN="/C=US/ST=Someprovince/L=Sometown/O=none/OU=none/CN=localhost/emailAddress=webaster@localhost"
C="250 OK id=1M5tpG-0006Ua-DV" QT=26s DT=24s
Please see if that tripped the same problem, and what the header looked like.
..standing by...
Bill Hacker
>
> When these emails come in, which happens to be all the time, a number of
> things happen. Firstly, the exim queue freaks out:
>
> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 351 crashed with signal 11 while
> delivering 1M4MG2-0002y4-5z
> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 353 crashed with signal 11 while
> delivering 1M1omA-0002WY-3M
> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 354 crashed with signal 11 while
> delivering 1M1flT-0005z1-J4
> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 355 crashed with signal 11 while
> delivering 1M5IZ7-0003Pd-K5
> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 360 crashed with signal 11 while
> delivering 1M1ZXv-00007r-29
> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 369 crashed with signal 11 while
> delivering 1M52Vd-00085s-FE
>
> I'll also see a number errors like this:
>
> 2009-05-17 21:14:31 1M5qbz-00082q-1M internal problem in domain_filter
> router (recipient is info@???): failure to transfer data from
> subprocess: status=000b readerror='Success'
>
> I'm running Exim 4.69 on Debian 5.
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> Keefe John
> Techware
>
>
>
