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Re: Exim: Format error in spool file


At 01:58 AM 12/22/2002 -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>> 2) Looking at the source code, this error message should include
>> the name of a file. Have you looked at that file?
>> Send it me as an attachment if you don't see anything obvious.
>
>Attached (very small files).

It looks like your cygwin user name contains spaces.
This confuses exim (and many other Unix programs).

Edit your entry in the /etc/passwd file. Change the first
field to something without spaces.

Pierre



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