Re: [Exim] Sendmail compatibility

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Author: Alexey Promokhov
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To: Jeffrey Goldberg
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Sendmail compatibility
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> > I'm now trying to install FidoGate. It starts Sendmail as
> >
> > sendmail -fusername@domain
> I would be extremely surprised if that worked with real sendmail. I don't
> have a copy around the test with.
>
> What is that call to sendmail supposed to be doing? If it is to read a
> particular message, then there is a missing -t option.

I've just installed Sendmail only for test, without configuring. Command
'sendmail' without arguments wrotes 'Recipient address is missing" or
something like, but it READS a message from stdin and tryes to deliver it.

Here is a part of log:

Mar 5 22:28:29 linuxbox sendmail[421]: f25JSOZ00421: from=root, size=17,
class=0, nrcpts=0, msgid=<200103051928.f25JSOZ00421@???>,
relay=root@localhost

As I understand, it deliver a message to address specified in To: header. I
looked in Areafix script contiributed with ifmail package, it also assumes
Sendmail, and it executes Sendmail without any arguments, only with stdin
redirection.

Maybe somebody in this mailing list uses Sendmail somewhere...

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Alexey Promokhov <alexpro@???>, 2:5020/1513@FidoNet