Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:03:33 -0500 From: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> To: spil.oss@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with alias length in base Sendmail Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001241258430.40512@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <5fbf03c21001240150r2064810n744694380ab8913a@mail.gmail.com> References: <5fbf03c21001240150r2064810n744694380ab8913a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:50, spil.oss@ wrote: > Hi All, > > Today I ran into the BUG documented in the aliases man-page. > > If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB, you > may have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single alias to > about 1000 bytes of information. <snip> > > Looking at Sendmail, it is compiled with NEWDB so the restriction > would not apply. > > # sendmail -d0.1 -bv root > Version 8.14.3 > Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 > NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SCANF > STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG > > If my alias (including whitespace) exceeds ca. 1000 characters, > running `make aliases` will report an error. > /etc/mail/aliases: line 320: alias too long > Resulting in an aliases.db file without the too long alias > 550 5.1.1 <alias1@example.org>... User unknown > Which means to me that the alias is simply skipped and the rest of the > aliases database is installed. > > There is a workaround documented with the bug in the man-page, but I'd > very much like to understand why this is failing. > > FreeBSD gw.example.org 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Thu > Jun 11 12:58:02 CEST 2009 > root@gw.example.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 > > Kind regards, > > Spil > That's either one hell of a pipe or the owner of that email address can be proud that no-one will ever email him/her ;) Can you post the alias in question ? Maybe there is another way that you could go about doing this if it is not just a test case trying to flaunt the adequate limits of sendmail. -- jhell
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