Bug#1050196: exim4: EBADF when looking up .forward files

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2023-08-21 Erik Hulsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.96-19
> Severity: important

> Dear Maintainer,

> we've got a setup with users' .forward files.
> Handling these seems broken to me - strace shows this:
[...]

Hello,

is thisv reproducible for you? What do the logfiles say for this
delivery? Can you tell me more about the forward files, are they
exim-filter ones or classic ones?

For debugging I just used

| logger

as .forward and ended up with the expected in mainlog
2023-08-22 10:10:58 1qYMTa-0000Vw-05 <= ametzler at bebt.de H=localhost (argenau.bebt.de) [::1] P=esmtps X=TLS1.3:ECDHE_X25519__ECDSA_SECP256R1_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256 CV=no S=531 id=20230822101057.001979 at argenau.bebt.de
2023-08-22 10:10:58 1qYMTa-0000Vw-05 => | logger <ametzler at localhost> R=userforward T=address_pipe
2023-08-22 10:10:58 1qYMTa-0000Vw-05 Completed

and journal
Aug 22 10:10:58 argenau ametzler[1984]: From ametzler at bebt.de Tue Aug 22 10:10:58 2023
Aug 22 10:10:58 argenau ametzler[1984]: Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=argenau.bebt.de)
[...]

cu Andreas

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