On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:05:28PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> The problem is due to the space in the name and can easily be
> reproduced by manually editing a user name in /etc/passwd to contain a
> space and then trying to send a message from that account by invoking
> /bin/mail.
> 
> It is a clear upstream bug and has already been reported upstream. I
> hope they will fix it in time.
> 
> I have tried to use rewriting as a short-time fix, but it looks like
> exim barfs on the second line of the header spool file containing user
> name, uid and gid, space separated, and there is no rewriting option
> for this.
> 
> I am afraid that we will have to wait for an upstream fix here.

Can you please re-try in your setup with exim 4.50-1 from Debian
experimental? With that new version, I cannot reproduce the issue any
more.

Greetings
Marc

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