On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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).
>
-t is an extrodinarily mind-boggling piece of shit, mostly used by
people that dont even understand the difference between an envelope and
a header (or that 'just learned it that way' from someone else that
suffered from that problem)
I always use -bs (or even -bS with exim ) when writing a script or
somethingthat needs to originate email.
> 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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