Exim 4.94 Taint issues

[Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas]

On 18/07/2020 02:34, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote:
> Trying Exim 4.94 and I am getting
> 
>


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'/var/mail/doctor' (file or directory name for local_delivery transport)
not permitted
> 2020-07-17 19:30:09.145 [9601] 1jwbdm-00026Z-H4 == doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (-1) DT=0.001s: Tainted '/var/mail/doctor' (file or directory name for local_delivery transport) not permitted
> 2020-07-17 19:30:09.151 [9603] 1jwbcO-0001zD-9p == doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (-1) DT=0.001s: Tainted '/var/mail/doctor' (file or directory name for local_delivery transport) not permitted
> 2020-07-17 19:30:09.228 [9608] 1jwbdQ-00023D-Cx == doctor at nk.ca R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (-1) DT=0.001s: Tainted '/var/mail/doctor' (file or directory name for local_delivery transport) not permitted
> 
> Why is this happening?
> 
At a guess related to
https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/src/README.UPDATING#L29


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1848926 had a reasonable
discussion with more links.

Regards,
Vince