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Subject: Re: Broken SMTP Notifications in Postfix RPMs
From: Simon J Mudd (sjmuddpobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 11:06:04 CDT

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Chuck Dale wrote:

> Dear Simon,

Hello Chuck,

> I have been using your Postfix RPMs - thank you for them, it makes
> things much easier.
>
> There is a bug introduced in the patches in the RPM, however, that stops
> Postfix putting "Out:" lines in the notifications sent to postmaster.
>
> See message below for an example. I was experiecing the problem with
> your 19991231_pl07 RPMs. I upgraded to pl08 and same problem kept
> occurring. Compiling from source, however, I got the appropriate "Out:"
> lines.

I assume the problem also exists in the snapshot-20000531 rpms?

> Any ideas on where this bug may be coming in? I noticed there are a few
> patches on smtpd in the RPM but I didn't understand them enough to find
> where the problem could be.

I'll have to have a look.

In principle the only "patch" I include to smtpd now is one to allow for
multiline EHLO greetings, which the standard smtpd doesn't provide. The
solution I used, pending a better one, wasn't 100% "nice" and that's why
Wietse didn't adopt it within the standard sources.

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:32:05 +1000 (EST)
> From: MAILER-DAEMONgiardia.yourweb.com.au (Mail Delivery System)
> Subject: Postfix SMTP server: errors from coltrane.ctrllab.com[203.63.54.66]
> To: postmastergiardia.yourweb.com.au (Postmaster)
>
> Transcript of session follows.
>
> In: helo dude
> In: mail from:<bugaphid.net>
> In: rcpt to:<weenerwee.com>
> In: quit

Are you sure that this doesn't correspond with the session transcript?
If not I'll check the patches I made. It's been some time since I've
touched this code and when I did get postmaster notices I don't remember
having seen the type of session transcript you are reporting.

If the bug is mine (I'm not doubting it is) I'll need to see what to do to
fix it.

Thanks for the report, and I'll see what I can do.

Regards,

Simon
(and sorry to taint the true postfix sources) 

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