Re: [hylafax-users] faxrcvd in release 5.2.2A

[Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@xxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard typed (on Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:49:51PM -0800):
> Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>> I run 'smail' as the MTA on all the machines I am responsible for.
>>
>> When CCTO and BCCTO are empty strings, smail barfs when the 5.2.2
>> version of faxrcvd pipes to the following at line 208:
>>
>> 	$SENDMAIL -f$FROMADDR -oi "$MAILTO" "$CCTO" "$BCCTO"
>>
>> The two trailing empty strings provoke this error in smail's logs:
>>
>> 	invalid user supplied command line parameters: unknown addressing form
>>
>> I can cure it by changing the quoting a bit:
>>
>> 	$SENDMAIL -f$FROMADDR -oi "$MAILTO $CCTO $BCCTO"
>> 	
>> I suspect that would still work for other sendmail binaries that do not
>> choke on the empty strings as mine does.
>>   
>
> Doesn't that end up making $CCTO and $BCCTO end up in the "To:" header and 
> not the "Cc:" and "Bcc:" headers?

No, the CC: header is set earlier, and is part of what is fed to
sendmail|smail; sendmail|smail doesn't add a CC: or BCC: header.

> With smail how do you supply the "Cc:" and "Bcc:" entries from the command 
> line?

Same with samil as with sendmail.

> Or... do we need to begin using the sendmail -t option?  From 'man 
> sendmail'...
>
>       -t     Read message for recipients.  To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines will be 
> scanned for recipient addresses.  The Bcc: line will be deleted before 
> transmission.
>
> Does the smail sendmail man page read the same for "-t" ?  The postfix 
> version reads like this:
>
>       -t     Extract recipients from message headers. These are added to 
> any recipients specified on the command line.
>
>              With Postfix versions prior to 2.1, this option requires that 
> no recipient addresses are specified on the command line.
>
> So with postfix it's not clear that the Bcc: header would get deleted.  I'd 
> have to test that.


For smail:

   -t     Extract addresses from the To:, Cc: and Bcc: fields of the mes-
          sage header.  This is useful for user agents that do not wish to
          compute the recipient addresses themselves.  In this mode, any
          addresses given on the command line are addresses that explic-
          itly will NOT receive mail, even as a result of aliasing or for-
          warding expansions.  This option is ignored unless smail is in
          the mode set by the -bm flag (which is the default mode).

-- 
JP


____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________
  To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
 On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx < /dev/null
  *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@xxxxxxxxx*