Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 15:12:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uucp/uux -a<> problem Message-ID: <199506062012.PAA09464@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199506050654.QAA29474@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Jun 5, 95 04:54:13 pm
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> Bill Fenner writes:
>
> > Someone posted saying they were having a problem with sendmail running
> > uux with an empty "from" argument on errors. Do you have the "g" flag set
> > for that mailer? "g" is supposed to use MAILER-DAEMON (well, really, $o)
> > as the from address for error messages.
>
> Thanks .. whichever macro it uses, this does the job.
>
> In order to relieve other FreeBSD users hosting UUCP feeds of the same
> problem, I'd like to propose that the line ..
>
> define(`UUCP_MAILER_FLAGS', `g')
>
> .. be added to the default sendmail configuration or, at the very least,
> that it be documented in an FAQ as the current configuration and Taylor's
> UUCP don't do the Right Thing in this case. Same argument applies to the
> rmail patch I forwarded .. the default should work in as many cases as
> possible,
>From the Sendmail documentation:
5.3.3 Error messages are sent as From:<>. This was
urged by RFC 821 and reiterated by RFC 1123,
but older versions of sendmail never really did
it properly. Version 8 does. However, some
systems cannot handle this perfectly legal
address; if necessary, you can create a special
mailer that uses the `g' flag to disable this.
It sounds like the current configuration for Sendmail is right and Taylor is
broken. I have not looked at this myself, however....
... JG
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