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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:19:07 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        peter@freefall.freebsd.org (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/mailer smtp.m4
Message-ID:  <199604030619.IAA14715@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604030258.SAA29419@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Peter Wemm" at Apr 2, 96 06:58:50 pm

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As Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> peter       96/04/02 18:58:49
> 
>   Branch:      usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/mailer  RELENG_2_1_0
>   Modified:    usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/mailer  smtp.m4
>   Log:
>   Add the "8" flag to the smtp and esmtp mailers.  This makes sendmail-8.7.5
>   behave like the older 8.6.12 that was in the tree when talking to
>   an older sendmail that does not speak esmtp or advertise the 8bitmime
>   capability.

Hmm, the interesting problem was that the new sendmail does also
MIME-cripple an outgoing message even if the destination mailer *does*
speak ESMTP (e.g. sending SMTP is sendmail 8.7.something, receiving
SMTP is the sendmail of FreeBSD 2.0.5).

Is this a bug in sendmail?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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