Bug#930648: exim4-daemon-heavy: Weird leakage of unrelated data like /etc/aliases into /var/spool/exim4/input/*-H

[Bjoern Buerger]

* Andreas Metzler (ametzler at bebt.de) [190618 19:15]:
> On 2019-06-17 Bjoern Buerger <b.buerger at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Am Mon, 17 Jun 2019 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> [...]
> > > what version did you upgrade from, the previous bpo-version (4.92-2) or
> > > the original stretch release?
> 
> > exim4-base:i386 (4.89-2+deb9u4, 4.92-7~bpo9+1)
> > exim4-daemon-heavy:i386 (4.89-2+deb9u4, 4.92-7~bpo9+1)
> > exim4:i386 (4.89-2+deb9u4, 4.92-7~bpo9+1)
> [...] 
> > > Are you running sa-exim or something else that directly modifies the
> > > spoolfiles outside exim?
> 
> > sa-exim
> 
> Could you try
> a) disabling BDAT (set chunking_advertise_hosts = )
> b) try a backport of sa-exim 4.2.1-17?
> 
> See #879687.

We could give it a try, but I don't see the point.
Judging from the #879687 description I find it hard 
to believe that large chunks of local files like 
/etc/aliases (~100 lines) would end up in spool files 
due to this bug. But maybe I don't see the whole 
picture yet?

bbu
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