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bug #15217: whom doesn't work with exim/postfix/qmail

Submitted by:  Peter Maydell <pm215>
Submitted on:  Thu 15 Dec 2005 02:39:00 PM UTC  
 
Category: BugSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalStatus: Wont Fix
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed

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Fri 20 Apr 2012 01:13:37 AM UTC, comment #2:

Sounds to me like this isn't a bug, and can be closed.

Ken Hornstein <kenh>
Project Administrator
Fri 05 Feb 2010 05:42:18 AM UTC, comment #1:

You have to have your postproc to spost and mts: to
sendmail in mts.conf, and sendmail on the system
is one of the front-ends to a non-sendmail MTA.

IMO, this is not a bug. spost is written specifically
for sendmail and expects sendmail semantics.

The -t option is needed since spost lets sendmail parse
out the addresses from the message to do the address checks.

For users that post messages to non-sendmail MTAs via
the command-line, they should be using 'post' instead
of 'spost'.

BTW, on my CentOS 4 system, I cannot even use spost to
do whom checks since -bv option to sendmail is only
allowed by trusted users. Here is what I get:

What now? w
Notice: -bv may give misleading output for non-privileged user
can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

Maybe spost should be deprecated.

Earl Hood <ehood>
Project Member
Thu 15 Dec 2005 02:39:00 PM UTC, original submission:

Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=74889

Apparently whom tries to give /usr/lib/sendmail the -t and -bv arguments, which these common modern MTAs don't like.

A test case would be nice, since 'whom' seems to work for me and yet I can see in the code for spost that it is passing these arguments to sendmail and my exim does indeed dislike them.

Peter Maydell <pm215>
Project Administrator

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Fri 20 Apr 2012 01:13:37 AM UTCkenhStatusNone=>Wont Fix
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Mon 29 Dec 2008 10:42:56 PM UTCpm215CategoryNone=>Bug

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