On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> But my own application, run by majordom, execs a call to sendmail:
>
> > execv called on /usr/lib/sendmail sendmail -fzo-eVote@??? -t
>
> The appropriate links are in place.
> > trusted_users = majordom
> But the mail doesn't go.
The problem is not with trusted_users (which allows majordom to use the
-f), but that no recipients are being picked up.
> > A message that you sent contained no recipient addresses, and so no
> > delivery could be attempted.
That appears to be it.
> > ------ This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ------
> >
> > Received: from majordom by rosa with local (Exim 3.02 #1)
> > id 113kwy-00012S-00; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:37:12 -0700
> > Message-Id: <E113kwy-00012S-00@rosa>
> > From: zo-eVote@???
> > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:37:12 -0700
> >
Note that a blank line is in there, and exim thinks that the first line of
the body is:
> > >From zo-eVote@???
That is the offending bit added (or let through) by your application.
That would convince Exim that there are no headers in the message, and
took everything as message text.
> Can you please tell me what I'm missing?
Your "own application" is producing a message which starts with a mailbox
separator /^From\s+/ which is NOT a valid email header. The -t option for
exim (or any other sendmail drop-in) requires that the input file start
with valid headers. The first thing that it finds which doesn't look like
a message header will be taken to be the first line of the body.
-j
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