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Subject: Re[4]: PATCH: sendmail compatibility: '.' as end of input
From: Kurt Andersen (kurtaspk.hp.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 13:41:52 CST

wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote:
> You might want to temporarily replace /usr/lib/sendmail by a script
> that echoes arguments and input to the syslog daemon:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /some/where/logger -p mail.info -t faux-sendmail args: $*
> /some/where/logger -p mail.info -t faux-sendmail
>
> Wietse

Here are the results:

Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: To: kurtaspk.agilent.com
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: Subject: Reminder- test 3
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: Mime-Version: 1.0
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail:
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific last message repeated 2 times
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: ^I** Calendar Appointment **
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail:
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: ^IDate:^I03/13/2000
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: ^IStart:^I1050
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: ^IEnd:^I1145
Mar 13 10:45:00 pacific faux-sendmail: ^IWhat:^Itest 3

I actually put a slightly more sophisticated PERL script in to observe
any signals that might be sent out of band but nothing showed up.

I am mystified as to how dtcm expects this child process to go away, but
it worked with sendmail 8.9.3 and earlier...

--Kurt 

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Kurt Andersen <kurtaspk.agilent.com>
Agilent Technologies, Spokane -- UNIX/Network Support Team (UST)
Information Technology Department   (509) 921-3792