Re: [exim] Strange system filter behaviour.

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Author: Molly Fletcher
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To: exim-users@exim.org
CC: Phil Pennock, Todd Lyons, Ian Eiloart
Subject: Re: [exim] Strange system filter behaviour.
On 30/10/12 00:09, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2012-10-12 at 19:45 -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
>>>> Has nobody ever used this before and noticed that email addresses
>>>> still have this '>' character in front of them? Googling didn't find
>>>> any for me.
>>> I suspect that at some point, the "-t parse" logic must have been
>>> removed/simplified away without realising the address format.
>> Ah, good point. Maybe we can look and find said parse logic.
>>
>> I didn't google very well before apparently. I dug a little more and
>> found something from 2008:
>> http://forum.lissyara.su/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8366#p68304
>> I don't read Russian, but I did see this debug output:
>>
>> 2540 Filter: end of processing
>> 2540 system filter returned 1
>> 2540 system filter added mail-copy-mailbox@???
>> 2540 system filter added mail-copy-mailbox@???
>> 2540 Delivery address list:
>> 2540 mail-copy-mailbox@???
>> 2540 mail-copy-mailbox@???
>> 2540 opt1k@???
>>
>> It's without the '>' mark, so there's at least a possibility that the
>> simple fix is to strip the leading '>' before it prints this output.
> Note that in this case, all the recipients are of type email, so the
> processing which looks at the first element in the list sees the > and
> strips it off all of them. In the bug case, the first recipient address
> is a path, so that doesn't happen.
>
> -Phil

The path was only added as an aid to debug a problem we were already
having. It still occurred when we only had email address deliveries.

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