On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Giles Constant wrote:
> > Sorry, what does this actually do?
>
> It starts an SMTP session through stdio, and enables 'Bcc' headers to be
> turned into recipients and allows further recipients to be added on the
> commandline.
Boggle! What an extraordinary idea.
-bs sets up an SMTP session - in SMTP, the envelope is passed using
SMTP commands.
-t says "take recipients from the headers because I can't be bothered
to set up an envelope", and is normally used when passing a message to
the MTA directly (not using SMTP).
What exactly an MTA should do with a combination of the two makes my
head spin. There are apparently THREE potential sources of recipients:
the command line, the header lines, and the SMTP RCPT commands.
Aarrgghh!!
> Doesn't help - it's the fact that the binary is calling exim with '-bs
> -t', and exim barfs with 'incompatible command-line arguments'. I can't
> modify the binary (actually, I'm contemplating overwriting the '-t' in
> the binary with spaces using a hex editor), so I'm trying modify exim.
Could it be that, for Sendmail, -t overrides -bs? In which case, you
need to override the -bs in the binary, not the -t.
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