Bug#286721: marked as forwarded ("exim4 -bV -C /path/to/file" does not validate incorrect control= statements)

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From: Andreas Metzler <eximusers@downhill.at.eu.org>
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Cc: Marc Sherman <msherman@projectile.ca>, 286721-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
Subject: exim does not detect invalid configfile on startup.
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Re: Bug#286721: "exim4 -bV -C /path/to/file" does not validate incorrect control= statements
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Hello,
This is <http://bugs.debian.org/286721>
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On 2004-12-21 Marc Sherman <msherman@projectile.ca> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.34-8
> Severity: normal

> exim 4.34 does not support submission mode (it was added in 4.40).
> However, adding "control=submission" to an ACL in the 4.34 config file
> does not cause an error at startup (or with exim -bV).  The failure is
> only noticed when incoming mail hits the offending line in the ACL, and
> is deferred.
[...]
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Indeed exim seems to not check the right hand-site of control=
statements for valid syntax on startup as it does for options et al.
               cu andreas
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