[102075] in RedHat Linux List
SUMMARY: sendmail 8.9.1: line breaks in headers; mailing to files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sasha@forum.swarthmore.edu)
Tue Dec 1 09:37:22 1998
From: sasha@forum.swarthmore.edu
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 14:35:50 GMT
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Thanks to Anthony Greene (redhat-list) and Gregory Shapiro (sendmail.org).
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sasha> Q 1: new version inserts line breaks in headers like 'Received:', if
sasha> the line is longer than a certain ## of characters. this is
sasha> breaking my custom scripts that are used to the old format - all on
sasha> one line header. is there a way to tell sendmail to stop inserting
sasha> line breaks?
You can change the format of the Received header by modifying this option:
confRECEIVED_HEADER Received:
[$?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_)
$.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id $i$?u
for $u; $|;
$.$b]
The format of the Received: header
in messages passed through this host.
It is unwise to try to change this.
However, it's probably a good idea to fix your program to understand header
continuations.
alternatively, one can use 'formail -c' from the procmail package to
concatenate continued fields in the headers.
sasha> Q2: enabled O DontBlameSendmail=filedeliverytosymlink,
sasha> groupwritabledirpathsafe
sasha> i have an alias that includes a symlink among other adressees, say,
sasha> /somedirectory/.current.month. .current.month is a symlink to a
sasha> file archive.November98. permissions on the last file are as
sasha> follows:
sasha> -rwSr--r-- 1 daemon system archive.November98
sasha> i get an error: can't create output
sasha> with the 8.8.5 version this setup worked fine. what am i missing?
this is an actual bug in sendmail. below is a patch:
------- deliver.c -------
*** - Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
--- deliver.c Mon Nov 9 20:08:25 1998
***************
*** 3280,3285 ****
--- 3280,3286 ----
/* child -- actually write to file */
struct stat stb;
MCI mcibuf;
+ int err;
volatile int oflags = O_WRONLY|O_APPEND;
if (e->e_lockfp != NULL)
***************
*** 3303,3309 ****
ev = NULL;
#ifdef HASLSTAT
! if (lstat(filename, &stb) < 0)
#else
if (stat(filename, &stb) < 0)
#endif
--- 3304,3314 ----
ev = NULL;
#ifdef HASLSTAT
! if (bitset(DBS_FILEDELIVERYTOSYMLINK, DontBlameSendmail))
! err = stat(filename, &stb);
! else
! err = lstat(filename, &stb);
! if (err < 0)
#else
if (stat(filename, &stb) < 0)
#endif
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