[Pkg-exim4-users] `exim4 -Mvc <message id>` does not display the complete message at all.

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Exim4 folks,


wanting to display the message from the mail queue the following does
not work.

        $ sudo exim4 -Mvc 1QjmYH-0003xy-Tj # probably a spam message since no sender is set
        Received: from [203.209.105.5] (helo=203.209.105.5)
                by mail.gw90.de with smtp (Exim 4.69)
                id 1QjmYH-0003xy-Tj
                for judo1 at gw90.de; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:16:06 +0000

Reading the manual page (`man exim4`), I thought this should be the
correct way.

       -Mvb <message id>
                 This option causes the contents of the message body (-D) spool file to be written to the standard output. This option can be  used  only
                 by an admin user.

       -Mvc <message id>
                 This option causes a copy of the complete message (header lines plus body) to be written to the standard output in RFC 2822 format. This
                 option can be used only by an admin user.

       -Mvh <message id>
                 This option causes the contents of the message headers (-H) spool file to be written to the standard output. This  option  can  be  used
                 only by an admin user.

       -Mvl <message id>
                 This  option  causes the contents of the message log spool file to be written to the standard output. This option can be used only by an
                 admin user.

Using `-Mvh` or `-Mvb` the header or body is also not displayed.

The system is running Debian Lenny, i. e. `exim4 4.69-9+lenny4`. The
manual page in Debian Sid/unstable has the same descriptions for the
options.

Unfortunately most message in my queue are probably corrupt, that is
they do not have a sender field, and all correct ones have been
delivered already. So I cannot test if this only happens with these
corrupt messages.


Thanks,

Paul
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