Bug#1025420: exim4: ${run}expansion fail Bug stiill open [TT#2568022]

[SerNet Support Kevin Ivory]

oh, well, thanks for analysing that.
Sorry, I didn't notice the change myself.

Am 25.10.23 um 16:24 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> On 2023-10-23 SerNet Support Kevin Ivory <support at sernet.de> wrote:
> [...]
>> That binary does not fix the problem of quote with space included:
> 
>> # /usr/sbin/exim4 -be '${run{/usr/bin/echo ${quote:hello world}}}'
>> Failed: Expansion of "${quote:hello" from command "/usr/bin/echo ${quote:hello world}" in ${run} expansion failed: missing } at end of string
> [...]
> 
> ${run expansion changed in 4.96:
> "If the option preexpand is not used, the command string is split into
> individual arguments by spaces and then each argument is expanded."
> 
> i.e.
>          /usr/bin/echo ${quote:hello world}
> is split into
>          /usr/bin/echo
>          ${quote:hello
>          world}
> and the second string yields an expansion error.
> Use
> /usr/sbin/exim4 -be '${run,preexpand{/usr/bin/echo ${quote:hello world}}}'
> to get the old behavior.

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