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- From: Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: BUG in 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 Sendmail
- Message-ID: <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Dec22124849@beck.nexus.comm.se>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 11:48:49 GMT
- References: <1h5s28INN9ia@smurf.sub.org>
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- Organization: Communicator Nexus AB
- Lines: 58
- In-Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.sub.org's message of 22 Dec 1992 02: 46:48 +0100
-
- In article <1h5s28INN9ia@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
-
-
- 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. ;-)
-
-
- So if you don't care, why bother? And why are you using "undocumented"
- headers if you don't know how to use them? What is the proper
- behaviour if you use an optional header in a manner not intended?
-
- I myself find these additions very useful (thanks Keld) as they allow
- me to use ISO-8859-1 (or about any other character set) and still
- conform to RFC-822 (7 bit SMTP).
-
- One could perhaps expect sendmail to accept and deliver the mail
- without character set translations of no translation set is found.
-
- Thomas
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