Re: [exim] Strange system filter behaviour.

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Author: Molly Fletcher
Date:  
To: Ian Eiloart
CC: <exim-users@exim.org>
Subject: Re: [exim] Strange system filter behaviour.
On 10/10/12 10:38, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2012, at 15:34, Molly Fletcher <molly.fletcher@???> wrote:
>
>> That is the mail back to the user is sent to ">user.name@???" rather than "user.name@???" which is then rejected by our exchange server when exim passes the message to it for local delivery generating a bounce. The only change to the main exim configuration related to this filter was to set "message_body_visible = 32768" so the filter scans enough message body to catch all numeric URLs.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions where the extra ">" on the start of the address might be coming from or why it only seems to happen some of the time and not all?
>>
>> This is with exim4-daemon-heavy 4.76-3ubuntu3 running on ubuntu 12.04 LTS server amd64.
>>
>> The exim configuration is monolithic I'll post any bits if necessary but it's a bit big to put in the initial post.
> I think the address for Mail is taken from the "From" header, not the envelope. So do check that that's not inaccurate.


I added a save clause to the filter so I could see what headers exim is
getting and they look fine:

>From molly.fletcher@??? Wed Oct 10 15:29:26 2012

Return-path: <molly.fletcher@???>
Envelope-to: system-filter
Delivery-date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:29:26 +0100
Received: from exmail.redembedded.com ([10.82.128.38]:16845)
    by mail1.redembedded.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16)
    (Exim 4.76)
    (envelope-from <molly.fletcher@???>)
    id 1TLxHq-00084u-75
    for fakeuser@???; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:29:26 +0100
Received: from winky.red.redembedded.com ([10.82.128.38]) by
 winky.red.redembedded.com ([10.82.128.38]) with mapi id 14.01.0289.001;
Wed,
 10 Oct 2012 15:29:25 +0100
From: Molly Fletcher <molly.fletcher@???>


but when the filter is processed:

2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31056] 1TLxHq-00084u-75 <=
molly.fletcher@??? H=exmail.redembedded.com
[10.82.128.38]:16845 I=[10.82.1.26]:25 P=esmtps
X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16 CV=no S=5825
id=91BD0F59ED5FBE44976D1A3644BF2E3A5D5990@???
T="Filter test please ignore" from <molly.fletcher@
redembedded.com> for fakeuser@???
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31056] SMTP connection from exmail.redembedded.com
[10.82.128.38]:16845 I=[10.82.1.26]:25 closed by QUIT
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31058] cwd=/var/spool/exim4 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim4
-Mc 1TLxHq-00084u-75
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31058] 1TLxHq-00084u-75 original recipients ignored
(system filter)
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31058] 1TLxHq-00084u-75 =>
/var/log/exim4/filtertest <system-filter>
F=<molly.fletcher@???> P=<molly.fletcher@???>
T=address_file S=6007 QT=0s DT=0s
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31058] 1TLxHq-00084u-75 **
>molly.fletcher@??? <system-filter>

F=<molly.fletcher@???> P=<molly.fletcher@???>
T=local_delivery: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT
TO:<>molly.fletcher@???>: host exmail.redembedded.com
[10.82.128.38]: 501 5
.1.3 Invalid address
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31062] cwd=/var/spool/exim4 7 args: /usr/sbin/exim4
-t -oem -oi -f <> -E1TLxHq-00084u-75
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31062] 1TLxHq-000850-Pt <= <> R=1TLxHq-00084u-75
U=Debian-exim P=local S=6864 T="Mail delivery failed: returning message
to sender" from <> for molly.fletcher@???
2012-10-10 15:29:26 [31058] 1TLxHq-00084u-75 Completed QT=0s

I've also tried with:

mail to $sender_address

and the result is the same.

-- 
Molly Fletcher, IT System Administrator    <molly.fletcher@???>
Red Embedded Design            www.redembedded.com
Tel: +44 (0)1274 287724


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