Bug#215319: mailname: MAY contain spaces and other invalid chars, however it SHOULD NOT.

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:01:45PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> --- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:31:42PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > > --- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:12:16AM -0500, Mike Mestnik) (The
> > Archmage
> > > > Forever wrote:
> > > > > I had a space in my mailname like "black.com block.net", and this
> > made
> > > > all
> > > > > my outgoing mail frozen.
> > > > 
> > > > What do you suggest the exim4 packages to do?
> > > > 
> > > Error: Space in mailname.
> > 
> > I am not sure whether caring for every possible user error in a
> > debconf script is within the scope of a reasonably complex package.
> > 
> debconf???
> No, exim4 should be able to detect this as a problem.  AFAIK programs are
> not normaly in the habbit of running after seeing two paramiters where
> there should only be one.  If this has changed I think a great deal of ppl
> would be upset.

Exim itself doesn't have a mailname concept. The mailname macro goes
into the exim configuration in many different places. You have looked
at the generated configuration, right?

Greetings
Marc

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