Bug#828801: Legitimate mail can contain long lines

[George B.]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.87-3
Followup-For: Bug #828801

Hello,

I have just hit this issue trying to submit a bug report using the
reportbug package (which in turn connects to my Exim SMTP server to send
the message).

The message has a text file attachment that contains very long lines
(output of `bt full`) and this is enough to trigger this ACL.

This is a bad rule IMHO.


Thanks,

George


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.87 #2 built 08-May-2016 12:03:10
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2016
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2016
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM DNSSEC Event OCSP PRDR SOCKS
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.59

exim4-config recommends no packages.

exim4-config suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/exim4/passwd.client [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/exim4/passwd.client'
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4 [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4'

-- debconf information excluded