Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:02:49 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error submitting port.. (resend) Message-ID: <20000809200249.A2959@ringwraith.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <ybuya274vnc.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>; from rjesup@wgate.com on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:31:19AM -0400 References: <ybuya274vnc.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>
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You might want to look at the gnu/20173 PR that I have submitted for
a related problem. The patch proposed (also included in this message)
makes send-pr check for a FROM environment variable, and, if found,
pass it to sendmail to specify a From: address.
G'luck,
Peter Penchev
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The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:31:19AM -0400, Randell Jesup wrote:
> This didn't make it to ports on the first send a few weeks ago, because
> (ironically) our IT people messed up the HELO message when they installed a
> new mail server, and so my email was rejected.
>
> "Jesse C. McConnell" <jesse@cylant.com> writes:
> >Actaully, I was using just jesse@cylant.com.
> >
> >Must be local sendmail conf that is doing it. I'll try and figure
> >something else out. Any particular reason I can't use the Netscape
> >mailer and just take care to make sure all the fields look the same?
> >That would bounce off the mail server and work..
>
> >> > I am having issues submitting a new port using send-pr because I am
> >> > behind a firewall.
> >>
> >> [midom@space] /usr/home/midom$> host darwin.cylant.com
> >> Host not found.
>
> Lots of companies have email go through their mailservers (which
> are the only machines reverse-dns-able). If they screw up the host
> specified in HELO (or let a non-reverse-dnsable machine handle the
> mail-queue), freebsd.org rejects email from the entire company. This has
> happened twice here at wgate.com.
>
> --
> Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
> rjesup@wgate.com
diff -ur src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.sh mysrc/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.sh
--- src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.sh Wed Jun 21 02:41:52 2000
+++ mysrc/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/send-pr.sh Tue Jul 25 15:26:38 2000
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
# What mailer to use. This must come after the config file, since it is
# host-dependent.
MAIL_AGENT="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t"
+# From: address override?
+[ ! -z "$FROM" ] && MAIL_AGENT="$MAIL_AGENT -f $FROM"
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