dnews (an nntp server) has a mostly harmless error it how it calls
sendmail in its default configuration file.
However, the error shows up when exim is used as a replacement for
sendmail.
The dnews.conf file comes with the line
# Path to sendmail on your system. (or equivalent mailer)
sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail -t %s
The %s gets replaced with the recipient address, so conflicts with
the -t telling sendmail to get recipients from the headers in the
file.
simply correcting the dnews.conf to
# Path to sendmail on your system. (or equivalent mailer)
# sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail -t %s
sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail %s
seems to do the job perfectly.
With the incorrect setting the behavior was that the mail would
be sent with no recipients (usually), becuase when the -t is present,
exim treats command line arguments as addresses *not* to deliver to
(as stated very clearly in the exim documentation).
Presumably, sendmail's behavior in this case is undocumented (or should
be an error).
-j
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