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sendmail 5.61 patch

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Wed Jul 26 22:46:01 1989

Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 22:45:41 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
this may be applicable to us.
   From: andrew@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson)
   Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers
   Date: 25 Jul 89 17:09:31 GMT
   Organisation: STC Technology, London Road, HARLOW, Essex England, CM17 9NA
   Phone: 	+44 279 29531 ext 2423
   Telex: 	81151 stl hw g

   There is a known bug, if you are copying errors to postmaster:

   andrew.findlay@ Fri Feb 10 11:47:00 1989
   To: andrew@stl
   Subject: Patch for Sendmail

   5.61 has the same strcmp(NULL) bug that the previous version did.
   Any bounced mail causes a seg violation on a Sun. Patch follows:

   *** savemail.c.BAD	Sat Feb  4 15:55:42 1989
   --- savemail.c	Fri Feb 10 10:49:40 1989
   ***************
   *** 406,412 ****
	   to = buf;
	   for (q = returnq; q != NULL; q = q->q_next) {
	       if (q->q_alias == NULL)
   ! 		if (strcmp(q->q_paddr, PostMasterCopy) == 0)
		       cc = q->q_paddr;
		   else {
		       /* Not Postmaster; already on the To: line? */
   --- 406,413 ----
	   to = buf;
	   for (q = returnq; q != NULL; q = q->q_next) {
	       if (q->q_alias == NULL)
   ! 		if ( (PostMasterCopy!=NULL) &&
   ! 		     (strcmp(q->q_paddr, PostMasterCopy) == 0))
		       cc = q->q_paddr;
		   else {
		       /* Not Postmaster; already on the To: line? */


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