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

[Mike Mestnik]

--- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:

> 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?
> 
I'm sure this 'string' gets passed to exim, regardless of what it is
called at that point.  Your statement any leads me to conclude that exim
has more then one chance to detect the error.

Read what I mean, not my typed example.

> Greetings
> Marc
> 
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