Bug#408174: exim4: header_sender test and group addresses: exim rejecting rfc-valid mails

[Marc Haber]

tags #408174 confirmed pending
thanks

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:24:20PM +0100, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
> "PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
>       flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
>       turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
>       set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
>       be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
>       verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
>       came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
>       while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
>       the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
>       trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct."

Magnus Holmgren kindly pulled the attached patch from exim CVS and I
have applied it to svn. Can you try if this is actually fixing the
entire issue?

Greetings
Marc


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