Title: Exim>=4.94 transports: tainted not permitted Author: Fabian Groffen Posted: 2021-05-04 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: mail-mta/exim The Message Transfer Agent Exim disallows tainted variables in transport configurations since version 4.94. Existing exim.conf configurations in /etc/exim need to be reviewed for breakage prior to upgrading to >=mail-mta/exim-4.94 to avoid error conditions at runtime. Since the release of Exim-4.94, transports refuse to use tainted data in constructing a delivery location. If you use this in your transports, your configuration will break, causing errors and possible downtime. Particularly, the use of $local_part in any transport, should likely be updated with $local_part_data. Check your local_delivery transport, which historically used $local_part. Unfortunately there is not much documentation on "tainted" data for Exim[1], and to resolve this, non-official sources need to be used, such as [2] and [3]. [1] https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20201109.222746.24ea3904.en.html [2] https://mox.sh/sysadmin/tainted-filename-errors-in-exim-4.94/ [3] https://jimbobmcgee.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/de-tainting-exim-configuration-variables/