Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: emacs sendmail committing forgery Keywords: SunOS4.0, GNU Emacs, sendmail Message-ID: <411@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 16 May 89 20:44:45 GMT References: <276@arc.UUCP> <314@odi.ODI.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 12 In-reply-to: benson@odi.com (Benson Margulies) In article <314@odi.ODI.COM>, benson@odi (Benson Margulies) writes: >This is a bug in Sunos 4 sendmail. If getlogin() return 0, which it >does when stdin/out/err is a pipe of a pty without a utmp entry, >sendmail goes batshit. We hacked mail.el to add an explicit -f. >Sun has acknowledged the bug, and promises a fix "sometime." Could you post this fix for the non-emacs hackers? -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP