exim4 with Debian 8 Jessie

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Tue Feb 17 17:22:06 UTC 2015


On 2015-02-17 Gordon Dickens <gordon at dickens.com> wrote:
> It is my understanding that the Debian developers plan to include exim
> version 4.84 or 4.85 with the Debian 8 Jessie release.  I have several
> mail servers running exim4 on Debian 7 Wheezy and I want you to be
> aware of a nasty little bug in exim versions 4.83, 4.84 and 4.85. I am
> bringing this to your attention in an effort to ensure that this bug
> is patched in whatever version of exim4 that you include with Jessie.
[...]
> This regression was initially introduced in exim 4.83 which caused the
> headers_remove clauses in the exim configuration files to malfunction.
> This regression continued in Exim 4.84 and 4.85. Exim versions earlier
> than exim 4.83 are not impacted by this regression.  A partial fix was
> implemented in 4.85 which fixed the transports section but not the
> routers section.  The bug report is here:

http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533
[...]

Thank you for the pointer, I have just uploaded 4.84-8 to unstable
which should fix this.

cu Andreas
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