Re: [Exim] Sendmail compatibility

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Sendmail compatibility
> > It appears that there is an undocumented feature of sendmail which treats
> > the particular command-line syntax error as an implicit use of "-t".
> > Should that "feature" be added to exim for compatibility?
> Yeap. Or Exim should not be claimed as 'Sendmail interface compatible'. Or
> this stuff should be added to documentation or FAQ. But not each user reads
> documentation... :(


My sendmail doesn't work like that.

 rainier:~$ /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail    
 Recipient names must be specified
 To: reed@???
 Subject: testing 3


testing 3 yes
.

Mar 5 16:18:07 rainier sendmail[3419]: f260Ho803419: from=reed, size=51,
class=0, nrcpts=0,msgid=<200103060017.f260Ho803419@???>,
relay=reed@localhost

There is no corresponding f260JjA03427 log message; no "to=" entry. I am
not sure, but I think that "nrcpts=0" means number of recipients. The
message was not sent. The message is not in my mqueue; it is gone. When I
use the "-t" switch it works.

  Jeremy C. Reed
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