Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:46:53 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail doesn't write exactly in mailbox format Message-ID: <199603160946.KAA07350@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199603150805.QAA00812@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 15, 96 04:05:26 pm
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Thanks for your suggestion, it seems to run perfectly. I'll watch this the next hours... Thanks Andreas /// > > In freebsd.current you write: > > If you are using -current and sendmail-8.7.4, you *really* want to rebuild > sendmail now that it's got 8.7.5 imported. It has this exact bug.. (and > this is the only change) > > -Peter > > >Hi ! > > >I hoped, that after doing a make world this ugly error would > >vanish but it doesn't. > > >Since about beginning of March I have a big problem with sendmail. > >It doesn't write strictly mailbox format. > > >If a mail is appended to a file because of such an entry > >in /etc/aliases: > > > freebsd-current: /home/andreas/mailing-lists/freebsd-current > > >then the new mail will be saved with a leading ' ' (whitespace) in > >front of the first From of a new mail. This causes articles to vanish, > >since every mailer searches a new article in a mailfolder file by > >looking for a "From" at the very beginning of a line. > > >I already checked, that it isn't elm or pine's fault. It's sendmail > >writing this garbage. Where in hell does that leading whitespace > >come from ?! > > >I wrote a little shellscript, that repairs my mailinglist folders > >by doing this: > > >#! /bin/sh > >for i in $* > >do > >ex $i << !EOM > >g/^\ From\ /s/^\ From\ /From\ / > >w > >q > >!EOM > >done > > >What makes me really wonder is the fact, that mail in my incoming > >mailfolder isn't crippled, only things I save into a file by an > >entry in /etc/aliases. > > >Example: > >---------------------------------- > > >Rest of a previous mail......................... > > >Finally, the size of the perl5 distribution is much larger than that of > >perl4, and no-one has stepped forward with a Perl5 that has been > >properly B-maked, so it can replace current perl4. > > > >Nate > > > From owner-freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Thu Mar 14 07:12:34 1996 > >^----------------- THIS IS THE NASTY THING > >Return-Path: owner-freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org > >Received: (from uucp@localhost) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.4/8.7.3) with UUCP id HAA00505 for freebsd-current@knobel.gun.de; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:12:34 +0100 (MET) > >Received: from zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.20]) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id GAA05029 for <freebsd-current@knobel.gun.de>; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:37:05 +0100 (MET) > >Received: from freefall.freebsd.org ([204.216.27.4]) by zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA03403; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:39:13 +0100 (MET) > >Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) > > by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA27955 > > Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:48:46 -0800 (PST) > >Received: (from root@localhost) > > by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA27942 > > for current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:48:43 -0800 (PST) > >Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) > > by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA27933 > > for <current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:48:34 -0800 (PST) > >Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA15313; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:48:19 -0800 > >From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> > >Message-Id: <199603132148.NAA15313@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> > > > >-- > >andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH > > Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ > >pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< > >ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< > >"Ich bleibe bei der Aussage und trotze den Flames. :-)" Ulli Horlacher 02/96 > -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< "Ich bleibe bei der Aussage und trotze den Flames. :-)" Ulli Horlacher 02/96
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