Comment 12 for bug 779391

Email from John Levine below - says it all I think.

thanks
--srs

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: dkim plugin in exim 4.72 doesnt seem to like your signature ..
Date: 29 Apr 2011 10:50:50 -0400
From: John R. Levine <email address hidden>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <email address hidden>

It's a buglet in exim, which seems to be misinterpreting percent signs as printf codes or something.

In DKIM signatures, percent signs aren't special.

On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> 2011-04-29 02:34:28 1QFk5k-0003Ry-NL string_format: unsupported type in
> "%i" in "DKIM: d=iecc.com s=4330.4db9faa9.k1104 c=simple/simple
> a=rsa-sha256 i=spamfighter%<email address hidden> [verification
> succeeded]"
> 2011-04-29 03:06:34 1QFkao-0003VB-Lv string_format: unsupported type in
> "%i" in "DKIM: d=iecc.com s=4330.4db9faa9.k1104 c=simple/simple
> a=rsa-sha256 i=spamfighter%<email address hidden> [verification
> succeeded]"
> 2011-04-29 03:37:32 1QFl4m-0003Xa-C0 string_format: unsupported type in
> "%i" in "DKIM: d=iecc.com s=4330.4db9faa9.k1104 c=simple/simple
> a=rsa-sha256 i=spamfighter%<email address hidden> [verification
> succeeded]"
>
> etc
>
>

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