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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi again,

Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2010, 19:12 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2010, 19:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> > 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.

Confirmed. With “use_shell” the USER in environment takes precedence
over exim’s own one. I assume that this is due to different parsing of
the environment in the shell and in deliver. It works for me this way,
but the behavior is still undesirably arbitrary.

Thanks,
Joachim

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