Bug#400294: exim4-config: Should not allow non-ASCII characters in /etc/mailname (and maybe in some other values)

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:08:10PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:42:17AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Agreed. We're going to introduce basic input sanitazion post-etch.
> > Sorry, but this is simply too late for etch now.
> 
> Maybe it's late (or dangerous) to do so in the config scripts but, ¿how about
> chaning exim4's (server) init.d script so that it warns on startup if it
> finds a botched (i.e. with non-ASCII chars) /etc/mailname?

I do not think that it is a good idea to address _this_ issue
isolated. It is maybe 0.1 % of the breakage potential that is present
without init sanitazion. I'd rather acknowledge-and-ignore this issue
until proper measures can be taken post-etch.

Greetings
Marc

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