[exim] Re: What does exim do with malformed messages?

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Autor: Andrew C Aitchison
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A: John R Levine
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Assumpte: [exim] Re: What does exim do with malformed messages?
On Wed, 29 Nov 2023, John R Levine via Exim-users wrote:

> If a malformed mail message shows up by SMTP (not local sendmail or
> submission),
> will exim generally try to clean it up or just pass it along?
>
> I see the discussion of submission mode in chapter 48 of the manual and all
> the
> options about when to run it and what to tell it to do, but in practice, will
> a
> typical system clean everything up, just locally submitted stuff, or
> soemthing
> else? Tnx.
>
> I'm thinking of stuff like this that might come from a badly written gateway:
>
> From: fred at example.com
> Message-Id: something@somethingelse
> Date: Tuesday, 28 Nov 2023 18:17:05 GMT
>
> R's,
> John


If I remember correctly, the basic philosophy is to
pass it along, but there are places where particular
headers do get sanitised or missing headers added.

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