From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 29 06:20:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA15218 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from asstdc.scgt.oz.au (asstdc.scgt.oz.au [202.14.234.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA15207 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:20:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from imb@localhost) by asstdc.scgt.oz.au (8.7.5/BSD4.4) id BAA23202 Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:19:33 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler Message-Id: <199603291419.BAA23202@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Subject: Re: rmail patch .. To: andrew@pubnix.net Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 01:19:32 +1100 (EST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Webster" at Mar 29, 96 08:46:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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