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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmailv5.65+IDA problem
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Date: 13 Nov 90 17:37:33 GMT
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I'm going to be accused of crying wolf for this. We've compiled sendmailv5.65+IDA
in a mode which was supposed to be compatible with our old v5.61 [as an upgrade
step, to see if the new binary works in practice]. The differences between that
and the standard are almost all related to canonical name lookups, together with
a few minor fixes to get it to run/compile on our Apollo 10.1 system. Now we
reach a real problem. Each time mail is ``delivered'' (each time it passes
through this sendmail) a new blank line is added to blank lines in the original.
Has anybody got any ideas about this? The relevant mailer lines in the .cf file
are:

Mtcpld, P=[IPC], F=mDFMueXLC, S=17, R=27, A=IPC $h, E=\r\n

and

Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u

The tests were done by sending mail through the IPC gateway and back - thus
passing through the sendmail twice. Sending to a user the other side of the
gateway resulted in blank lines doubling.

The .cf files are derived from the 5.61 Berkeley distribution.

John Forrest
Dept. of Computation
UMIST