Version 4, Exim and header rewrites - patch required?

[Julian Field]

The Exim code in Version 4 wasn't introduced until 4.10, so it is still
fairly new.
I will pass this problem onto Nick, and I am sure he will have a fix out
very soon.

At 16:47 21/01/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have examined the spool files produced by both version 3 and 4 of
>mailscanner and think that there may be a sight bug which is preventing
>the rewriting of certain header fields. Version 3 which works, specifies
>after the header length of these fields a character (F in the From:
>header, T in the To: header). Version 4 leaves out these letters. The exim
>specification suggest that these letters should be there and inserting
>them in files produced by version 4 and forcing delivery gives me mail
>with the headers rewritten perfectly.
>
>__________________________________________________________________________________________
>An excerpt from section 56 the Exim 3.3   specification is reproduced below
>
>
>The flags at present contain only one bit, which is set for one_time
>addresses. It indicates that <parent number> is the offset in the
>recipients list of the original parent of the address. The third number of
>the trio is for future expansion and is currently always zero. A blank
>line separates the envelope and status information from the headers which
>follow. A header may occupy several lines of the file, and to save effort
>when reading it in, each header is preceded by a number and an identifying
>character. The number is the number of characters in the header, including
>any embedded newlines and the terminating newline. The character is one of
>the following:
><blank>   header in which Exim has no special interest
>  B        Bcc: header
>  C        Cc: header
>  F        From: header
>  I        Message-id: header
>  P        Received: header -- P for `postmark'
>  R        Reply-To: header
>  S        Sender: header
>  T        To: header
>  *        replaced or deleted header
>Deleted or replaced (rewritten) headers remain in the spool
>
>__________________________________________________________________________________________
>Regards,
>
>Ray Gardener
>CIS
>Sheffield Hallam University
>Howard Street
>Sheffield
>UK
>S1 1WB
>(44)  0114 225 4926
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk>Ray Gardener
>To: <mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>MailScanner mailing list
>Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:06 AM
>Subject: Version 4, Exim and header rewrites
>
>Hi,
>
>I upgraded from version 3 to version 4 of Mailscanner last week and found
>that the header rewrites configured in my Exim 3.36 configuration no
>longed worked. Briefly we rewrite all internal addresses with an external
>form before passing the mail to the outside world.
>
>e.g.
>
><mailto:r.a.gardener at shuexchangebox.shu.ac.uk>r.a.gardener at shuexchangebox.shu.ac.uk
>becomes <mailto:R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk>R.A.Gardener at shu.ac.uk
>
>This rewrite stopped after upgrading to version 4. Upon just downgrading
>the installation to version 3 of Mailscanner the rewriting restarted.  Has
>anyone else seen this? (and of course is there a fix?)
>
>Regards,
>
>Ray Gardener
>CIS
>Sheffield Hallam University
>Howard Street
>Sheffield
>UK
>S1 1WB
>(44)  0114 225 4926

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