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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.86: errors when trying to process incoming email with filter
On 23/01/16 01:10, Konstantin Boyandin wrote:
> Hello Evgeniy,
>
> On 01/22/2016 01:54 PM, Evgeniy Berdnikov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:13:06AM +0600, Konstantin Boyandin wrote:
>>> Two questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Is it required to enclose the $header* in quote marks before
>>> passing to the script?
>>
>> Look at chapter 11 of documentation for description of ${run{...}},
>> there is a complete answer.
>>
>>> Looks like Exim decodes KOI8-R encoded parts
>>> of the headers and tries to pass them as they are.
>>
>> Yes, $header_<name> ($h_<name>) functions do some decoding.
>> Look for $rh_<name> and $bh_<name> in the same chapter 11.
>
> Thanks for the directions. Using "raw" format looks optimal workaround,
> since I don't need text parts anyway, only email addresses.
>
> However, I was wondering why Exim signalled "Too many arguments..."
> error (location: src/transport.c, function transport_set_up_command)
> when expanding arguments.


As the docs say, the command and args for ${run } are split into
arguments by spaces. So if one of your headers had things in
it that looked like spaces, it would be chopped into multiple
actual args. This could easily result in "too many args" -
as well as not being what you wanted to be given to your
script.

If you wrap the $h_<name> in doublequotes (") then spaces embedded
in its expansion don't matter. Of course, now doublequotes do...
If this an issue for your use-case, consider using the ${quote: }
operator.
--
Cheers,
Jeremy