[exim] Re: Destination address in a transport

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Re: Destination address in a transport
On 2023-10-26 Thomas Andrews via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> On 10/25/23 23:09, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:

[...]
> > For use in a command line for a pipe transport, you'll need de-tainted
> > versions of those.  Which means full verification of both components
> > against a local source of trust.


> The destination address could be gjh@??? or anything - ie I have no
> way to de-taint it as it is not a local address. Therefore using $local_part
> and $domain is not an option. What are my other options? (By the way, it
> doesn't actually matter if the destination address is tainted in my case -
> the external program my_proggie will deal with that.)


Exim will refuse to invoke the external arguments with tainted
arguments.

Other options are to pass on the information by different means than a
commandline arguments, inline like using lmtp protocol.

cu Andreas
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