Pkg exim4 users - Jul 2011 - `exim4 -Mvc <message id>` does not display the complete message at all.

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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--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users sourceforge net>
wrote:
> wanting to display the message from the mail queue.
  I think that with root privileges you can cat, more, and 
so on for the relevant files.

Am Donnerstag, den 21.07.2011, 16:23 -0700 schrieb Regid
Ichira:
> --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users sourceforge
net> wrote:
> 
> > wanting to display the message from the mail queue.
> 
>   I think that with root privileges you can cat, more, and 
> so on for the relevant files.
Thanks for the hint. My question was really regarding what is written in
the manual page and if I misunderstood that. It would be nice to use
Exim directly for such things.


Thanks,

Paul
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Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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.
[...]

Hello,

I strongly suspect this beeing related to corrupt messages. It works
on 4.76-2:

---------------------
argenau:~# exim -Mvc 1Qkzs0-0001Oo-CP
Received: from ametzler by ip6-localhost with local (Exim 4.76)
        (envelope-from <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>)
        id 1Qkzs0-0001Oo-CP
        for ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:41:28 +0200
Message-Id: <E1Qkzs0-0001Oo-CP at midonly.argenau.bebt.de>
From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:41:28 +0200

foo
---------------------

Could you add a new test message to the queue and check whether it
works there?

echo foo | /usr/sbin/exim -odq paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net
(Use exim -Mf option to freeze the message and prevent delivery)

cu andreas