Re: [EXIM] dnews error calling sendmail shows up with exim

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Paul Slootman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] dnews error calling sendmail shows up with exim
That's only half the relevant test, but your doing it reminded me that I
have sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.7 sitting on RedHat Linux on a test name server
right next to me. So,

# sendmail -t j.goldberg@???
To: j.goldberg@???,goldberg@???
Subject: blah

blah
^D

Does get delivered to

     j.goldberg@???
and
     goldberg@???



I would be amazed if there is any real difference between 8.8.7 and 8.8.8
in this regard.

It looks like the ambiguity of the description of sendmail's behavior
in various bits of the sendmail documentation indirectly led Philip to put
the wrong behavior into exim.

So, when -t is used any command line argument is treated as an address
to deliver to. Addresses on the command line are NOT an exception list.

-j

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