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

[Marc Haber]

user exim4 at packages.debian.org
usertags #346260 possible-user-error
thanks

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:53:06PM +0100, Andreas Edler wrote:
> 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

${reply_address} is the header line Reply-To or From. to= in the
transport is the envelope recipient, which doesn't take descriptions
and/or comments.

Maybe the "address" expansion operator can help:

${address:<string>}
    The string is interpreted as an RFC 2822 address, as it might appear in a
    header line, and the effective address is extracted from it. If the string
    does not parse successfully, the result is empty.

So, probably to = "${address:$reply_address}" or the respective
syntactically correct item can help here. I cannot try it myself since
I am too lazy to build a test configuration from the snippets you have
shown here.

Please get back to this bug report if my advice helps.

Greetings
Marc

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