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- From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: BUG in 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 Sendmail
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 02:46:48 +0100
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
- Lines: 45
- Message-ID: <1h5s28INN9ia@smurf.sub.org>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1
-
- There's a rather deadly bug in the sendmail which says "5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4"
- when I SMTP to it. I don't know if that bug has been reported, and frankly
- I don't care, not runing sendmail myself.
-
- % telnet amiga.physik.unizh.ch 25
- 220 amiga.physik.unizh.ch 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 Sendmail [...]
- HELO smurf.sub.org
- 250 Hello smurf.sub.org, pleased to meet you
- MAIL From:<anybody-at-all>
- 250 postmaster... Sender ok
- RCPT To:<another-anybody>
- 250 <another-anybody>... Recipient ok
- DATA
- 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
- X-Charset: Dead
-
- .
- 554 getchout: open of charset output translation file //usr/local/lib/mail/char/DEAD
- quit
- 221 amiga.physik.unizh.ch closing connection
-
- Very neat. An undocumented and optional header causes my mail to fail.
- NOT GOOD:
-
- Now, we replace the word "Dead" with the empty string. Guess what? The mailer
- hangs.
-
- Very nice. Very nice indeed.
-
- !!! Test your software before letting it loose on the Internet !!!
-
-
- Disclaimer1: This may be a local hack by amiga.physik.unizh.ch.
- If so, sorry to annoy the rest of the world with this.
- Disclaimer2: I'm sorry if this looks like a flame. It's not. Not really,
- anyway. Well, let's assume it isn't. ;-)
-
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- The Communist system must be based on the will of the people, and if the
- people should not want that system, then that people should establish a
- different system.
- -- Nikita S. Krushchev
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- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\
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