Bug#609308: exim4-config: modifier "message" is deprecated in a acl definition

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sat Jan 8 13:24:59 UTC 2011


tags 609308 pending
thanks

On 2011-01-08 Tommi Mäkitalo <tommi at tntnet.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.69-9+lenny1
> Severity: minor

> The documentation of exim says in chapter 40 about the message modifiler:

> "For compatibility with previous releases of Exim, a message
> modifier that is used with a warn verb behaves in a similar way to
> the add_header modifier, but this usage is now deprecated. However,
> message acts only when all the conditions are true, wherever it
> appears in an ACL command, whereas add_header acts as soon as it is
> encountered. If message is used with warn in an ACL that is not
> concerned with receiving a message, it has no effect."

> This message modifier can be found in the exim4-config package in 
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data

> That should be changed to add_header.
[...]

It is also used in the check_rcpt ACL. Both fixed in SVN.

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/?op=comp&compare[]=%2Fexim%2Fbranches%2Fbranch-4.73@2552&compare[]=%2Fexim%2Fbranches%2Fbranch-4.73@2553

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