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

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:25:36PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> 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.

It seems to do that, freezing the message as a result. I find that a
quite correct behavior instead of losing messages.

> Read what I mean, not my typed example.

You need to make yourself clearer if you want the stupid maintainer to
understand what you mean.

Can you please give the contents of your /etc/mailname,
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf files, and give an example how you
deliver a message which gets frozen.

Greetings
Marc

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