Bug#346260: exim4: autoreply problem with $reply_address and non-7bit chars

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-01-06 Andreas Edler <e0601 at han.sserv.de> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.50-8
> Severity: normal

> With the vacation_transport shown below a sender gets an error message
> stating:

>  Expansion of "${reply_address}" in vacation_transport transport
>  contains non-printing character 195

> An example from line of a mail on which occurs this error is:

>  From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Florian_Mei=DFner?= <email at address.removed>

> Here the configuration snippet:

>  vacation_transport:
>  driver = autoreply
>  from = "${local_part}@${domain}"
>  headers = "X-Vacation: Vacation-Autoreply"
>  once = /var/spool/exim/db/autoreply
>  once_file_size = 8192
>  once_repeat = 60m
>  subject = (...)
>  text = (...)
>  to = "${reply_address}"
>  user = mail
[...]

Hello,
I suspect exim4 does rfc2047-decoding. However I don't think it should
do that for ${reply_address}, but only for $h_ expansions, afaict from
the documentation.
              cu andreas

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