Re: MH tickles a bug in zmailer's "sendmail"

[mea@nic.funet.fi]

Dear me, known and fixed, but not in public releases :-/

??? (puzzled owl mode) ???

2.99.50s11 is the lattest from Nov 1998, so this fix is in there,
but you still get this error ?

	/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>


CVSROOT:	/home/mea/src/CVSROOT
Module name:	zmailer
Changes by:	mea@mea.tmt.tele.fi	98/06/02 22:17:38

Modified files:
	smtpserver     : smtpcmds.c smtpserver.c 

Log message:
	More Roy Bixler patches.  Moved some code around so that the system
	will always know when it truly is connected to a network socket.
	The server will not produce "rcvdfrom " envelope header in case
	it is not running on a network socket.



> Return-Path: mailer-daemon@clock.org
> Received: by cesium.clock.org id <27238-8759>; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:32:36 -0800
> To:	fair@clock.org
> From:	The Post Office <postmaster@clock.org>
> Sender: mailer-daemon@clock.org
> Subject: Invalid message envelope information
> Message-Id: <19990308153236Z27238-8759+375@cesium.clock.org>
> Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:32:36 -0800
> Return-Path: <mailer-daemon@clock.org>
> 
> The following message arrived with illegal envelope data, typically a
> mangled address that doesn't obey the RFC822/976 protocol specification.
> If you do not recognize the source of the bad header, perhaps you should
> contact a Postmaster at your site and ask why your mail was rejected.
> 
> Your message is being returned unprocessed.
> 
> The following annotated envelope headers illustrate the error(s):
> 
> Error in "rcvdfrom" envelope address:
> 
> 	localhost(user: 'fair' uid#13507 fake: stdin ("" ident: "uid#13507@localhost")))
> 		 ^-missing closing ')' in token
> 
> 
> 
> The entire original message file follows.
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> rcvdfrom stdin ("" ident: "uid#13507@localhost")
> with SMTP
> identinfo uid#13507@localhost
> from <fair@cesium.clock.org>
> todsn ORCPT=rfc822;mea@nic.funet.fi
> to <mea@nic.funet.fi>
> todsn ORCPT=rfc822;zmailer@nic.funet.fi
> to <zmailer@nic.funet.fi>
> env-end
> From: "Erik E. Fair" (Timekeeper) <fair@clock.org>
> Subject: Re: SMTP MAIL FROM:<> 
> In-reply-to: <19990308102849Z1147-6944+952@nic.funet.fi> 
> References: <v04020a24b30888cd4af8@[209.157.85.34]>
> To: mea@nic.funet.fi
> Cc: zmailer@nic.funet.fi
> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 07:32:29 -0800
> Message-ID: <15559.920907149@cesium.clock.org>
> Sender: fair@cesium.clock.org
> 
> [body elided - eef]
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