Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:19:32 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: andrew@pubnix.net Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rmail patch .. Message-ID: <199603291419.BAA23202@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960329084449.15301I-100000@guardian.fortress.org> from "Andrew Webster" at Mar 29, 96 08:46:03 am
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Andrew Webster writes:
> You don't describe exactly what your patch fixes, but I infer from the
> code that it is to fix the condition that occurs when people have
> "reading confirmation" enabled and send back a blank message to "" which
> causes UUCP to report an error.
Sorry .. in my case, I happen to have a stupid SMTP <-> MS-Mail gateway
"downstream" behind a UUCP link. If _any_ mail delivery warning or failure
occurs or even a return-receipt is requested, the UUCP "From_" line on
outbound mail from the gateway looks like this ..
From Sat Mar 30 01:02:12 1996
Received: from msmail.xxx.com.au
by xxx.xxx.com.au (5.6.5) with SMTP id BAA01601
[ .. ]
The result is that rmail rattles around and eventually creates a command
line that looks something like ..
sendmail -oee -odq -oi -oMrUUCP -f intended@destination
Needless to say, this doesn't work particularly well and fills everyone's
mailboxes with warnings ("recipient must be specified" amongst others). I
should also add that the patch is not mine but Eric Allman's,
michael
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