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- From: roy@prism.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: problem with sendmail-5.65c+IDA-1.4.4.1 WRT program mailer
- Message-ID: <67130@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:50:22 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- I tried installing the new sendmail, and ran into a little snag.
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- In "prescan", 5.65 makes a special test:
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- if (c == ';') /* semicolons are not tokens */
- c = NOCHAR;
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- that our older version did not make. The upshot of this is that people
- with .forward files like:
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- "| umask 077; /usr/local/bin/filter -vo /u/roy/.filter-errors"
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- no longer work because the semicolon has been stripped out. There are
- a couple of workarounds (backslash the semicolon, or use &&), but that
- involves getting a lot of people to fix their existing .forward files.
-
- Can anyone tell me the rationale behind the new test? What do I break
- if I remove the offending test? Thanks.
- Roy
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- Roy J. Mongiovi Systems Support Specialist Information Technology
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Tough are the souls that tread the knife's edge Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0715
- J. Tull roy@prism.gatech.edu
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