Bug#410756: exim4 default config utterly useless for 98% of users

[Daniel O'Neill]

sorry the end of the last message got accidentally cut off:


If I use the simple mail program nbsmtp to send mail (this is all it
does, just send mail through a smarthost) it sends correctly.  The
headers of a received message look like this (in comparison with above):

=======================================================================
>From djon777 at gmx.net  Tue Feb 13 00:57:49 2007
>From djo  Tue Feb 13 00:57:49 2007
Return-Path: djon777 at gmx.net
Delivered-To: GMX delivery to prosolutions at gmx.net
Received: from pop.gmx.net
        by maxi.alay.net with POP3 (fetchmail-6.3.6)
        for <djo at localhost> (single-drop); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:57:49
-0800 (PST)
Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2007 08:55:27 -0000
Received: by maxi (nbSMTP-1.01-cvs) for uid 1000
        (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256
bits))
        djon777 at gmx.net; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:55:52 -0800 (PST)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:55:30 -0800
From: Daniel <djon777 at gmx.net>
To: prosolutions at gmx.net
Subject: test
Message-ID: <20070213085049.GA5555 at maxi.alay.net>
Reply-To: Daniel <djon777 at gmx.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
=========================================================================

It looks like the issue is the first From: (the envelope From:?).  In
the failed message through Exim:

MAIL FROM:<djo at maxi.alaya.net>  (I believe this is the envelope from)
From: Daniel <djo at alay.mine.nu>  message From: which gets ignored

The message through nbsmtp:
>From djon777 at gmx.net
>From djo
From: Daniel <djon777 at gmx.net>  (not sure which From: is which here)

nbsmtp, a much simpler app than Exim, always sends mail correctly
through every mailer when it is provided with the name of the mailer, the
credentials, and the type of auth mechanism to use.  Why is Exim more
complex than this?



Regards,



--
Daniel O'Neill