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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Double quote in sendmail.cf
Message-ID: <5312@plains.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 21:56:38 GMT
Sender: tinguely@plains.UUCP
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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 I had problems freezing a sendmail.cf file with sendmail 5.64 with
 IDA extensions. The bad frozen file will core sendmail when the affected
 ruleset is encountered.

 The following lines ended our ruleset 0:
S0
#
# other stuff ** delete
#
R$+@.$-		$#ERROR $:Host $2 not known--please specify domain
R$+@.$-.$*$=T	$#ERROR $:Host $2 not known within the $3$4 domain
R$+@.$+.$-	$#ERROR $:Domain $3 not known--please try to route manually
R@$+		$#ERROR $:"Incomplete Source Route--use <...> format"
R$*		$#ERROR $:Could not parse $1

 following ruleset (0) is an empty ruleset 1, followed by a non-empty
 ruleset 2.

 Because of the double quotes in ruleset 0, bad values were placed in the 
 r_lhs, r_rhs, and r_next fields of RewriteRules[2]. It is interesting
 to note that RewriteRules[1] is correctly given the value NULL, and
 if the rulesets are re-arranged, the first non-empty ruleset following
 ruleset 0 is given bad pointer values.

 Being real lazy at this point, I just removed the double quotes
 from ruleset 0, and things work correctly again.