Keefe John wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I've been having a problem with exim and I've been pulling out my > hair trying to figure it out. Basically what is happening is that when > people send my server mail with strange From: headers the system has > problems. Here's an example of a From: field that would cause a problem: > From: "=?windows-1254?Q?Evg=F6r_Mobilya?=" [email protected]. It seems to > be related to From fields that have =? in them.
Not necesarily '?' in the original. More likely encoded with other-than 7-bit ASCII and are not being handled as expected somewhere along the line. I have just sent you a test message from one of my accounts that has Chinese characters in the 'From:' header. 2009-05-18 03:47:41 [62092] 1M5top-000G9S-CV => [email protected] F=<[email protected]> P=<[email protected]> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp S=2829 H=mail.techwarepc.com [208.87.120.6]:25 X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 CV=no DN="/C=US/ST=Someprovince/L=Sometown/O=none/OU=none/CN=localhost/emailaddress=webas...@localhost" C="250 OK id=1M5tpG-0006Ua-DV" QT=26s DT=24s Please see if that tripped the same problem, and what the header looked like. ..standing by... Bill Hacker > > When these emails come in, which happens to be all the time, a number of > things happen. Firstly, the exim queue freaks out: > > 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 351 crashed with signal 11 while > delivering 1M4MG2-0002y4-5z > 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 353 crashed with signal 11 while > delivering 1M1omA-0002WY-3M > 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 354 crashed with signal 11 while > delivering 1M1flT-0005z1-J4 > 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 355 crashed with signal 11 while > delivering 1M5IZ7-0003Pd-K5 > 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 360 crashed with signal 11 while > delivering 1M1ZXv-00007r-29 > 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 369 crashed with signal 11 while > delivering 1M52Vd-00085s-FE > > I'll also see a number errors like this: > > 2009-05-17 21:14:31 1M5qbz-00082q-1M internal problem in domain_filter > router (recipient is [email protected]): failure to transfer data from > subprocess: status=000b readerror='Success' > > I'm running Exim 4.69 on Debian 5. > > How do I fix this? > > Keefe John > Techware > > > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
