Bug#769396: exim4-config: maildrop pipe transport should not add From_ line to message

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 2014-11-13 Edward Betts <edward at 4angle.com> wrote:
[...]
> The the default exim4 config adds an mbox-style From line to the top of
> each message before it is piped to maildrop. 

> The maildrop man page says: "maildrop does not accept an mbox-style
> From_ line before the first header line."

> Maildrop doesn't complain about the extra From_ line, but doesn't remove
> it. This is a related bug against maildrop: https://bugs.debian.org/737383

> The exim pipe transport can be configured to not add the mbox-stlye
> From_ line by including 'message_prefix = ' in the transport. Here is 
> a patch against the exim4-config package.
[...]

Hello,

thank you, I have commited the patch to git[1], it will be part of the
next upload.

cu Andreas

[1] Not yet pushed, since git.d.o is down.
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