Bug#600007: environment option can not set USER for pipe transport

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2010, 19:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> On 2010-10-12 Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> This is also documented. (spec.txt 29.4 Environment variables: "The
> environment variables listed below are set up when the command is
> invoked. [...] Note that the environment option can be used to add
> additional variables [...]")

yes,  I noticed that it wasn’t working as expected.

> > I think it would be better if entries in environment really override the
> > defaults from exim.
> 
> > For me, this is not critical, as it only affects the logging output. But
> > it certainly is unexpected behaviour. Such a setup is also recommended
> > by dovceot, see the example on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim at the
> > very bottom.
> [...]
> 
> I will forward this upstream.

Thanks.

> Shouldn't this do as a workaround for
> the time being?
> 
> command = /usr/bin/env USER="$local_part@$domain" /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f $sender_address

Probably. I can also try to use "use_shell", as the shell will probably
re-do the environment and might read it from right to left.

Greetings,
Joachim
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