Your message dated Sun, 08 May 2016 12:33:48 +0000
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and subject line Bug#821830: fixed in exim4 4.87-3
has caused the Debian Bug report #821830,
regarding exim4: Exim rejects mail with overlong lines without any explanation
to be marked as done.
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Package: exim4
Version: 4.87-1
Severity: normal
I use Exim to get mail from Fetchmail. In the last days I have lost
some mails and got unsubscribed from some mailing lists. After much
digging, I discovered that an ACL rule has now been added which limits
line length to 998.
There are several problems here.
1) mail is rejected without any explanation; as a non-expert of Exim, it
took me much digging to discover that an ACL rule exists which
rejects mail without any explanation added to the logs: as a minimum,
a message line should be added to the acl rule
2) this change is very important, as it can cause people to lose mail:
the administrator should be clearly notified of it upon upgrade
3) there should be an easy way to disable the new behaviour, in the form
of a configuration macro
4) apparently people around there send legitimate email with overlong
lines. Since Exim does not suffer from it, it should apply Postel's
law «be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept
from others»: mail should definitely not be rejected by default
because it contains overlong lines
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-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.87 #2 built 07-Apr-2016 17:26:59
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2016
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2016
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September 9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM DNSSEC Event
OCSP PRDR SOCKS
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz
dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file
dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.isti.cnr.it::587'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
#dc_message_size_limit='50M'
mailname:tucano.isti.cnr.it
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (101,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59
ii exim4-base 4.87-1
ii exim4-daemon-light 4.87-1
exim4 recommends no packages.
exim4 suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
exim4/drec:
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: exim4
Source-Version: 4.87-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
exim4, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> (supplier of updated exim4 package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 14:03:10 +0200
Source: exim4
Binary: exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light exim4 exim4-daemon-heavy
eximon4 exim4-dbg exim4-daemon-light-dbg exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg exim4-dev
Architecture: source
Version: 4.87-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]>
Closes: 821830 823418
Description:
exim4-base - support files for all Exim MTA (v4) packages
exim4-config - configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)
exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg - debugging symbols for the Exim MTA "heavy" daemon
exim4-daemon-heavy - Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended features, including
exiscan-ac
exim4-daemon-light-dbg - debugging symbols for the Exim MTA "light" daemon
exim4-daemon-light - lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
exim4-dbg - debugging symbols for the Exim MTA (utilities)
exim4-dev - header files for the Exim MTA (v4) packages
exim4 - metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation
eximon4 - monitor application for the Exim MTA (v4) (X11 interface)
Changes:
exim4 (4.87-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Pull multiple patches from upstream GIT:
+ 71_01_configure.default-nice-message-for-overlong-lines-Bu.patch
Improved message on overlong lines in example config.
+ 71_02_Delivery-quieten-smtp-transport-conn-reuse-vs.-deliv.patch
Fix race condition related to connection reuse.
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1810
+ 71_03_Avoid-exposing-passwords-in-log-on-failing-ldap-look.patch
71_04_Avoid-exposing-passwords-in-log-on-failing-ldap-look.patch
Avoid exposing passwords in log on failing ldap lookup
expansion. https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165
* Copy information message on rejecting overlong lines in data ACL from
upstream example configuration. Closes: #823418
* Add NEWS entry on line-lenght-limit introduced in 4.87~RC1-1.
Closes: 821830
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